- Submitted by
- shawnnydegger
- Observations date
- Monday, April 30, 2018 at 03:23
- Location
- 53.829864° N 121.573657° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Hard
- Wet
- We rode:
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Skied some of the chutes out at Viking today. Not much snow at the trailhead so had to boot pack a bit. Pretty messy in the trees. Lots of sticks and such everywhere. Once we got up high there was a number of quite evident crowns on the North aspect that we were on. Appeared to be areas that have seen fair amounts of sun though. They were consistently on slopes that looked to be pretty well right between 35° - 40°. Tried to attach a picture but not sure if it worked. Lots of big cornices that are still melting away and breaking off. Snow in the shade up high was boiler pan ice. Still some good missions to be had out there.