- Submitted by
- gagnes
- Observations date
- Monday, April 4, 2022 at 15:00
- Location
- 49.398380° N 123.185250° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-123.18525,49.39838,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Hollyburn South Face")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Terrible
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- We rode:
- Open trees
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Wet
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
Above 1200 m, crust was supportive with 2 cm fresh powdery snow, nice. Between 1000 and 1200 m, there was a crust was 5 to 10 cm thick that was penetrable using a strong ski-pole thrust (at the tip & basket end), with 30+ cm of wet snow below. On the uptrack, the crust was supportive and difficult to easily set an edge-hold yet with a stomp a ski-edge hold could be attained. On the ski turns down, that crust was penetrated by the ski-tail edges resulting in a spring-grip that made linking a turn next to impossible. Below 1000 m, crust was hard.