- Submitted by
- bpatch
- Observations date
- Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 20:30
- Location
- 54.115500° N 121.432000° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Steep slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
Comments
Nice sunny day at the Farm Trail! Got out for a skin and dug a pit and had some ok tree riding down to the truck from 1250m. Approx 5cm powder on top of a light crust that made boarding and skiing a bit difficult. No signs of instability while we were skinning. I noticed that the crust around 5cm was sitting on a faceted layer that sheared off when I was cutting my column, probably worth keeping this layer in mind as it gets more snow on top. CTH 24 broke off at the ice layer at 175cm, non-planar failure. There was a big solid slab from 55-175cm that I was able to shear off the ice layer at 55cm with moderate force but didn't fail on the compression test.
