- Submitted by
- msulkers
- Observations date
- Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 21:20
- Location
- 50.087731° N 122.858454° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Mellow slopes
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Foggy
- Warm
- Wet
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Near surface facets from 10-15cm lay under a temperature crust of 4-6cm thickness. Windslabs to 10cm lay over these layers.
Strong SE winds moving snow across surfaces. Whumpfing occurring when temperature crust settled under skis while track setting.
If snowfall and temperature forcasts are accurate, this will be a very poor foundation.
Skiing on wind buff was OK, but viz was challenging.