- Submitted by
- albertocsanz
- Observations date
- Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 23:00
- Location
- 50.369290° N 122.285750° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- Heavy
- Powder
- Wet
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Cut blocks
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Day trip to Steep Ck. Skinned from the road, but in a day or two you'll need to walk a ways. Over 1 m HS at Darkside lake. South faces opposite side of the highway are almost completely dry. Above the hut snow was wet and there was little overnight freeze. Above 2000 m on shaded North facing terrain the snow was 30 cm of dry light-ish powder. Snow got progressively wetter below that. Evidence of recent storm slab probably releasing on a crust. No instabilities noted. Pinwheeling was evident even on North faces by the time we left the area at 4PM. Sun was out all day, but a bit of cloud cover made it fairly pleasant and probably preserved the snow a bit.
