- Submitted by
- southrockies
- Observations date
- Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 19:30
- Location
- 49.590540° N 115.069610° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Stormy
- Warm
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
This week we've been finding the rain crust that was buried a week ago is now under 30-40 cm of snow! That’s a scary amount to have sitting on a crust. We skinned up through west facing trees today and didn't find any shooting cracks or whumpfs. It was only once we dug down to the crust and did some tests that it showed that once triggered it can fail and spread across a slope. This made our decision to stick to lower angle slopes that weren't wind loaded much easier.
