- Submitted by
- pusheens.biggest.fan
- Observations date
- Monday, April 23, 2018 at 17:30
- Location
- 51.224215° N 117.525526° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Most of my observations corroborated today’s bulletin. Nice work, forecasters!
The SE face off Ross Peak was active today! Wet avalanches were coming down roughly every 5 minutes, up to size 2.5.
A compression test on a NNW aspect around 1850m revealed at least 5 distinct planar layers. 2 released during finger taps (8 and 15cm depth). 1 released during elbow taps (25cm). And two more could be found when pulling down the rest of the column after taps were completed (80cm and 120cm).
