Eldorado Cabin

Submitted by: camfenton604
Observations date: Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 15:00
Location: 50.958200° N 122.877726° W
Reporting on: Snow conditions

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Avalanche

Snowpack

Weather

Incident

Snow conditions

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

Crusty
Hard
Powder
Wind affected

We rode:

Convex slopes
Dense trees
Mellow slopes
Open trees
Steep slopes
Sunny slopes

We stayed away from:

Alpine slopes

Information

The day was:

Sunny
Windy

Avalanche conditions

Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Comments

Spent 6 days at the Eldorado Cabin from Jan 30-Feb 4. HS 130-150 with deeper snow in sheltered terrain BTL. Significant wind effect on all aspects in the alpine and at TL ridge tops. Basal facets still present throughout the snowpack, 20cm in ALP, 50cm+ at TL and BTL. Results on this layer were resistant planar CTH 25-30. We triggered one large shooting crack in a thick-to-thin zone near ridge top on January 30, propagated roughly 100m. Evidence of previous slides to ground (1 week+ old) on alpine N faces with one large slide on S face SE of Eldorado cabin. One 48hr+ slide found on BTL N face. All slid on basal facet layers.

Hard to see, but skier triggered shooting crack across this entire bowl at thick-to-thin spot with rocks, crack extends into trees on the right.

Large alpine slide to ground, most N facing aspects were similar.

Better snow BTL, S faces softened in the sun on Feb 2, MFC forming by Feb 3.