- Submitted by
- jocelyn_nadeau
- Observations date
- Monday, February 12, 2018 at 01:19
- Location
- 52.194927° N 117.152214° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Day trip to check out conditions after Feb 7th - 8th storm. Travel was good with 20 cm of ski penetration, stepping out of ski below treeline boot penetration was about 1m. We dug a pit at 2280m NE facing in a wind loaded feature with a 250cm snowpack. We found a few deeply buried weak layers and had moderate results sudden planar down 60cm with the compression and extended column test. This was definitely a concern: reactive hard slab with propagation potential. We stayed in very conservative terrain all day. Lots of stettlements/whumphing even in the flats down below the highway on exit.