- Submitted by
- Martina
- Observations date
- Monday, March 30, 2015 at 23:07
- Location
- 49.816721° N 114.759064° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Wet
- We rode:
- Cut blocks
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Warm
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
We saw several recent cornice falls - some of which triggered slabs below up to size three (See photos). We think these were triggered by the recent warming, rain, and/or strong winds. We witnessed a few small loose wet avalanches running in the space of a few minutes out of extreme east facing alpine terrain. We also saw evidence of old loose wet avalanches up to size 2. A good overnight refreeze of the snowpack would help lower the avalanche hazard, but I would expect with the forecast continued warming (and no refreeze) to result in more natural avalanches being triggered tomorrow.
