- Submitted by
- Ben Wards
- Observations date
- Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 12:10
- Location
- 51.709930° N 116.501320° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Is this a point observation or a summary of your day?
- Point observation
- Elevation band
- Treeline
- Aspect
- E
- Snowpack depth
- 50cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Surface conditions
- New snow
Comments
Good skiing at bow summit in a narrow band at the top of treeline. Everything else on the 93N looked like a tough approach. Skiing was good in the open but the snowpack had faceted out around small trees. We found isolated windslabs on NE aspect sitting on a facet layer at treeline.
