- Submitted by
- ortlieb101
- Observations date
- Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 23:00
- Location
- 51.300320° N 117.593850° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Is this a point observation or a summary of your day?
- Point observation
- Elevation above sea level
- 2,400m
- Aspect
- N
- Snowpack depth
- 260cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Snowpack test result
- Easy
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Sudden (`pop` or `drop`)
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 30cm
- Surface conditions
- Variable
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Surface hoar
Comments
Moving across the Bruins glacier behind 8812 we found spread wind slab across the glacier producing easy sudden hand shears down 10cm of 1F winds slab and down 30cm of dense 1F+ slab on preserved surface hoar. We tucked tail and enjoyed hero low density skiing in the sun down 8812 bowl. The majority of N facing aspects appear to have significant wind effect at upper elevations.