- Submitted by
- ICbM
- Observations date
- Friday, January 29, 2021 at 20:34
- Location
- 50.877460° N 118.197864° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- We rode:
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
Comments
Went up to find some new snow and check out how the snowpack is coming together.
Dug a quick put around 1650 on a SE aspect ish and found the decomposing melt-freeze crust.
Quick CT resulted in SC on the 16th tap.
Higher up near 2000 on a NE ish aspect, we were looking for the persistent layer.
Had to go around 30 taps to get the column to fracture, but got a clean fracture across the whole column 65cm down.
Did a ECT and got some partial propagation at around 30 taps and the The rest of the column failed again cleanly with a sudden drop once we really started hitting hard (maybe 35 hits)