- Submitted by
- grahamsilk24
- Observations date
- Monday, January 23, 2017 at 00:30
- Location
- 50.734960° N 115.240820° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Hard
- Powder
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Riding quality was decent in lower portion of the chutes in the open trees but terrible up top. Rapidly changing temperatures in the area has caused the weak layers to become very dense, with faceted layers beneath. Turns were very unpredictable.
We traversed to the steep open chute on skiers left at the end of the ridge but due to convexity and weak layers we pulled back. Temperatures varied on the day anywhere from -13 to 0 degrees.