- Submitted by
- Martina
- Observations date
- Friday, February 9, 2018 at 19:00
- Location
- 49.714260° N 114.628570° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-114.62857,49.71426,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "BIG, BAD & SCARY!")
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
The avalanches were BIG, BAD and SCARY in the Crowsnest today! Many had been triggered by cornices and had started as storm slabs then stepped down to the deep persistent late Nov rain crust (which is 1-4m deep in the alpine and in fan features). One notable avalanche that failed on this layer was a size 4 and was 600m wide and ran just under a kilometer in length! The hazard was so high with all these very recent slides that we avoided all overhead hazard and didn't even feel comfortable poking into the bottoms of the bowls where these avalanches had potential to run into.
