- Submitted by
- Eirik Sharp ACMG
- Observations date
- Friday, February 26, 2021 at 21:00
- Location
- 59.752270° N 134.620760° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Sunny 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.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
-19C at 8 AM in the parking lot rapidly warmed to near -5C at the valley bottom. South-facing slopes reacted to the warming and the first intense solar input of the year by producing several large avalanches (up to size 2.5). Winds were light today but the recent wind effect was evident in the alpine. We saw several recent windslab and cornice avalanches in north-facing terrain and encountered isolated pockets of soft windslab at treeline. In sheltered features, ski/sled penetration was between 40-50cm with roughly 20-30cm of low-density new snow sitting on facets. We managed the hazard by avoiding any exposure to overhead south-facing avalanche paths even when that meant battling through tight trees on the sleds and choosing sheltered north-facing terrain to ski.
