- Submitted by
- Greg Bernard
- Observations date
- Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 22:00
- Location
- 50.151020° N 123.077650° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Powder
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Foggy
Comments
We saw no evidence of instability. HS 2.2m at 1480m on the slope east of Hanging Lake (W exposure). We did an ECT and got no failure. A compression test gave M13 at .6m. Neither gave a result on the November layer (1.2m down). We did manage to get planar results on the Nov layer using a shovel shear test. I jumped on the lip of the pit to fill it in got a slab to move at 30cm down and again at about 60 cm down - nothing on the November layer. I had to jump pretty aggressively to get these results.
We didn't ski anything steeper than 25 degrees above Hanging Lake.
