- Submitted by
- Jonathan Eagles
- Observations date
- Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 21:45
- Location
- 55.389012° N 122.733326° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- Sunny slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
- Warm
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Did a ride for our AST2 course. Saw a size 1 avalanche under a broken cornice on a north east facing slope. Was probably a couple days old. Saw some shooting cracks in wind loaded areas. We avoided winded loaded slopes and slopes under cornices.
Dug a pit on a NE FACING convex slope. Surface hoar layers at 15cm and 45cm. On the compression test, the shallow layer reacted on tap 5 (easy) while the lower layer reacted as a hard 5. The lower layer 45cm down did not react on our extended column test.
