- Submitted by
- Steven Noël
- Observations date
- Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 19:50
- Location
- 51.684335° N 116.270956° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- Hard
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Dense trees
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
Comments
Skiing was good enough on Ramp yesterday I came back today for Mosquito. -19 in the parking lot with a slight inversion in the morning. Sunny all day with a few clouds and light W wind. Mosquito was a bit more wind affected than Ramp (perhaps the former sheltered the latter from the SW winds?). Some very hard wind slabs near the ridgeline but powder was had a bit below it. Some bony sections. W facing treed slopes skied beautifully again. Noted one decent avalanche (Size 2?) that took out most of a hanging alpine bowl on the NE corner of Noseeum Mt, going to near ground. Looked perhaps a couple days old but was hard to tell in the shade. A small fresh slide (cornice failure?) was seen on the ridge S of Watermelon Peak. No other signs of instability noted on our outing.