- Submitted by
- Ryan Shelly
- Observations date
- Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 20:46
- Location
- 55.369450° N 122.608900° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
Comments
Cold day in the pass at -16 in the am.
Upper snowpack (top 40cm) is cold snow around -14 degrees.
Layers of concern are down 50cm (laminated crust with rounding facets in between) CTM 14
and another layer 70cm down (ice crust/facet interface). This layer also provided a planar result in the hard range on our extended column test and compression test at CTH 22. Photos included show the results of the extended column test. Natural size 1-1.5 natural avalanches observed on steep southerly Alpine faces of Murray Range opposite the ski hill.
