Allen Creek gliding

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Powder

We rode:

• Dense trees
• Open trees

The day was:

• Cold
• Sunny

Out and about in the Allen creek riding zone over the last few days. We saw very little evidence of any natural activity other than some small surface sloughing out of steep alpine terrain. That was until we reached a feature know locally as avalanche ally. Much to our surprise as we looked up to make an assessment out of the fog came a rather large glide crack.

The first picture is actually from December 12, 2020. The second shows the progression of the large glide crack from today December 13, 2020.

We did a little investigating on an similar slope and found 20cm of large moist facets at the base of the snow pack. Above that we found the November rain crust (seemed to be bonding well). In the upper pack we found surface hoar down 25cm with a well consolidated mid pack and fist snow above. None of our testing produced any notable results.