- Submitted by
- seanmcewen20
- Observations date
- Friday, February 16, 2018 at 20:51
- Location
- 59.662160° N 135.148470° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Massive Whoomps and shooting cracks almost every 50m while skinning up Summit Creek. Shooting cracks would propagate 5-10 ms around the skier breaking trail. One massive shooting crack was triggered while skiing down past a small wind-loaded cornice. The crack was 30 cms deep, probably on that Jan crust, and extended across the entire length of the cornice. We would have felt incredibly uncomfortable on anything steeper than the low angle terrain on summit creek as nothing was really steep enough to slide. The skiing was fun, totally bluebird, with almost no wind until a gentle breeze started from NE in afternoon. We skied 5-15 cms of fresh non-wind affected powder. Temp was -16 at 1000 and -8 at 1500