- Submitted by
- Colin MacKenzie
- Observations date
- Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 02:00
- Location
- 59.707710° N 135.102840° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-135.10284,59.70771,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Surprise Slab")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Terrible
- Snow conditions were:
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
Comments
Out in the Whitepass with RCMP and CO’s from around the Yukon doing their AST1. Not much travel accomplished as visibility was poor.
We found this size 2 avalanche on a north aspect just to the east of Big Kahuna. Estimated to be fresh..within past 24hrs. The adjacent slopes were hammered with snowmobile tracks so it was interesting to see this slab pop out of a sheltered concave feature. The failure depth and plane line up with results in two nearby pits we dug which both had failures on an SH layer approx 20-30cms down.
