- Submitted by
- bpatch
- Observations date
- Sunday, January 17, 2021 at 19:00
- Location
- 54.111940° N 121.431960° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-121.43196,54.11194,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Farm Trail")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Wet
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Warm
- Wet
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Warm and wet day at the Farm. Around 0-2 degrees all day, mix of rain and wet snow. Saw several small (size 0.5) natural slides on steep slopes throughout the trees. Hand shear test pulled off a slab of the new storm snow with almost no effort. Dug a pit and compression test failed on the first tap from the wrist (non-planar break). The storm snow slid on a crust layer about 30cm down, but no obvious faceting/surface hoar around this crust layer. We kept to mellow slopes in the trees.
