- Submitted by
- andrewchaudet
- Observations date
- Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 20:00
- Location
- 49.993950° N 114.970184° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- Heavy
- Powder
- Wet
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Cut blocks
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- Sunny slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Sunny
- Warm
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
It was a touchy one above town today. We found buried surface hoar and facets depending the aspect with 15cms heavy dense snow on top. Lots of shooting cracks and whomps from 1800-2200m on a protected east facing slope. HS 140-160 that elevation band also. Once we got into the more dense trees conditions were better and the cracks and noises stopped, gained the far lookers right ridge. Noticed a lot of drum sounding, hollow snow at ridge top broke off a 1m x 1m x 50cm slab that dropped but didn’t run… but we did and quickly. It had warmed up close to 0 at 12:30 @2200m but the sun was mostly behind cloud all day 3/4 sky. High winds from the sw on ridge top lots snow transport. Across the valley there was a slab avalanche south face wapiti size 1.5 possible rock fall from animal above. couldn’t tell how deep.