Surface Hoar Alert

Submitted by
Charlie Bourque
Observations date
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Location
54.502371° N 128.985922° W
Reporting on
  • Snow conditions
Map for Mountain Information Network report: Surface Hoar Alert

Snow conditions

Riding quality was:
OK
Snow conditions were:
  • Crusty
  • Powder
  • Wind affected
We rode:
  • Dense trees
  • Open trees
We stayed away from:
  • Alpine slopes
  • Convex slopes

Information

The day was:
  • Sunny
  • Warm
Avalanche conditions
  • Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Comments

We noticed surface hoar build up on West aspect from approx. 900m to 1250m. I would espected to find the SH on North aspect as well. The East aspect had a sun crust at the end of the day.

We also had a whumpf (1000m ish) from the wind affected snow from last weekend.

There was about 20cm of fresh dry powder on top of the previously wind scoured surface.