- Submitted by
- tpalechuk
- Observations date
- Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 21:30
- Location
- 49.640050° N 121.017770° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Ski Tour AST program Summary: 1300m SE aspect 1315hrs +3 degrees. HS 113 cm in area observed. Snowpack summary: up to 30 cm of settled storm snow overlies crust 30 cm down. Top 5 - 8 cm was moist due to day time warming as well as very light rain at 1300 hrs (did not last long). This crust was reactive to compression tests (CTM 11 SP and CTE 4 SP) as well as to ECT tests (ECT 14) in area observed. Midpack also well settled with crust down 65 reactive to hard results (CTH 29 SP) but not to ECT. Early season crust down 85 was unreactive. Ski quality was very good boot top powder - dry in shaded areas and moist in solar affected areas (until the short rain sprinkle took care of the shaded areas). Reactivity of CR down 30 was something that got our attention.