- Submitted by
- Martina
- Observations date
- Friday, April 13, 2018 at 19:00
- Location
- 49.454930° N 114.698600° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
Information
- The day was:
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Yesterday's storm deposited about 5-7cm of dense moist snow on top of the old temperature crust. In the alpine there's a potential for deeper windslabs still, especially on north facing slopes. We saw one deeper large slab avalanche that was triggered by a cornice fall, and released right down to the rocks. Cornices seem to be failing easily on days like today where it's warm and windy and there's lots of fresh storm snow blowing around at ridgetops.
