- Submitted by
- EmoBella EmoBella
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 20:20
- Location
- 55.170640° N 127.606340° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Hard
- Powder
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Steep slopes
- Sunny slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
- Windy
Comments
Ski up March 19th to head col of chicago creek.
Calm wind overnight then westerly mod-strong ridge top wind picked up in late-AM, followed by a mod-strong southerly ridge top wind in PM. Sunny & -10c in alpine.
Riding was ok due to various conditions (pockets of 10-15cm of fresh snow overlying supportive hard crust from March. February crust is about 60cm down. Very very thin (10-20cm) HS @ below treeline.
Observed 1 recent >48hrs ago Na Size 2 in climber's right upper alpine bowl, suspecting cornice/wind loading failure onto lee convex feature.
