- Submitted by
- AvCan Northwest
- Observations date
- Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 23:00
- Location
- 55.137120° N 127.228470° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-127.22847,55.13712,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Stormy Seaton")
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
We went sled skiing up Seaton basin today. We saw one new size 2 natural avalanche that’s probably less than 24 hours old. We think this slide was triggered by a cornice failure off the ridge. We toured to the ridge top avoiding slopes that were exposed to cornices, which are large and looming due to the mild temps and continued moderate winds.
We dug a profile just below ridge top on a due north aspect at 1600m. Extended column tests showed two hard propagating shears down 43cm and 50 cm both on facets under a thin crust.
Exposed features were all wind affected to some extent so we skied down in the sheltered mellow trees avoiding steeper features where it could be possible to trigger a wind slab.
