- Submitted by
- blogan7420
- Observations date
- Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 23:00
- Location
- 50.633095° N 122.684928° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
- Sunny slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Cold
- Foggy
- Stormy
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Spent five days hammering our legs and all the various aspects around the Brian Waddington hut. There is a hard sun crust about 30-40cm down on S facing slopes that storm snow is having trouble bonding to. We set off this size 1 and another 0.5 before switching to almost exclusively N facing terrain; which was cold, dry, unconsolidated snow with minimal slab properties. We found 3-4cm windslab on N facing alpine features near Ridgeline but it didn't produce any results. When sun comes out it is powerful which reinforced our desire to ski in the shade
