- Submitted by
- cdnmoose11
- Observations date
- Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 21:00
- Location
- 49.077460° N 120.900980° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- Heavy
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- Sunny slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Numerous dry loose natural avalanches (up to size 2) seen in Manning today (first photo).
Numerous storm slab natural avalanches (also up to size 2). North aspects showed signs of cracking (second photo), and at this location gave a propagation likely snowpack test result (ECTPM 11 (SC), on a 34 degree slope, failing down 46cm on well preserved Jan 17th surface hoar (last photo).
We chose to ski south aspects where the surface hoar had spotty distribution, was small & difficult to find. On the south side, the new snow was bonding well to a 4cm thick temperature crust, down 39cm.
We could feel the intensity of the sun today... the snow was getting heavy on south aspects after 1pm.