- Submitted by
- caroline.j.jung
- Observations date
- Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 23:00
- Location
- 49.763360° N 123.027180° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Foggy
- Stormy
- Windy
Comments
20cm of storm snow sitting on graupel. What was falling on Saturday was also graupel. Coastal heavy powder. Triggered a size 0.5 on a ~45deg convexity with tiny runout (~6m), storm slab from the fresh snow. Did not seem to readily propagate across, crown was more or less ski length only.