- Submitted by
- Kootenay Backcountry Guides
- Observations date
- Friday, November 10, 2023 at 21:30
- Location
- 49.458353° N 117.144110° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Wet
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Cut blocks
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Checked out the damage from the storm for the last 48 hours. Amazingly the Snowpack was not completely washed away. We found 90-100cm of snow above 1800m. The Snowpack is moist to the ground all the way up to 1900 m, which was as high as we got. We found the early December surface hoar widespread up to 20mm. We felt whumpfing and cracking in all open terrain. I'm still in disbelief that the surface hoar survived that massive deluge of rain. There is 20 cm of dry snow on top of all the moist snow. Conditions were not nearly as poor as I was expecting when I left my door this morning.
