- Submitted by
- staywildbackcountry
- Observations date
- Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 22:30
- Location
- 50.007181° N 117.138638° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- Heavy
- Powder
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Cut blocks
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Foggy
- Stormy
- Warm
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Touring around Retallack the past two days.
We dug a pit yesterday at 2200m and found two crusts. One was 47cm down and the second was 71 cm down. Our second compression test was in a shallower area and we got CTM 14 down 40 SP (this was the deeper crust but in a shallower area).
The snow was great Sunday morning. Temps started to rise around 2pm. 0 degrees at 2000m at 2:30.
Witnessed a natural size 3 across the valley around 2pm. NE aspect, could not see the start zone due to visibility. Of note was a step down in the track (shown in the pictures).
