- Submitted by
- esarhawkins
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 19:30
- Location
- 53.112860° N 121.449840° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Quick trip up to the Mt Murray Cabin, poked around Mt Greenberry before skiing out. Didn't do a pit on this trip, but at the summit of Greenberry, where it is open with small sub-alpine trees, the snow was wind affected and had built into thin 5-10 cm slabs that would break easily, but seemed to only propagate a few meters maximum. As soon as you were back in the trees, the skiing was lovely. 20-30 cm of powder (from Wednesday/Thursday's storm?) was still very low density on top of very consolidated snow. You could get this storm layer to slide a bit, but no real slab character. We rode fairly mellow (<30 deg) densely treed slopes back down to the valley, predominantly on NE - W aspects. We did not see any natural slab releases, just small (<size 0.5) loose wets off trees and rocks.
