- Submitted by
- cdnmoose11
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 21:30
- Location
- 59.615642° N 135.214062° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Hard
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Many whumpfs all day long, including the alpine, so we stuck to mellow terrain and avoided overhead hazard.
One very big whumpf we had at the valley bottom (near 1400m elevation) was likely the trigger for a size 2 avalanche at the ridge crest (400m away!)... and five other small crowns nearby (first picture). On the ski down we saw a size 1 that released sympathetically around the corner (second photo), about 100m away from the other avalanches. Spooky stuff!
