- Submitted by
- cmurrayschlitt
- Observations date
- Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 07:00
- Location
- 51.090113° N 115.795861° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Warm
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Skied up Wawa ridge to assess conditions and dug 3 pits.
Widespread breakable crust, occasionally supportive to skis depending on aspect. Ski pen 10-20cm when breaking through crust. Foot pen to ground most places. Ski quality is terrible. Snowpack moist to base.
Top 17-25cm 1F resistance moist slab composed of 1mm rounding facets.
Fist resistance facets beneath. Compression tests, and extended column tests had easy-medium planar fractures on this layer in 2 of our pits. See attached snow profiles for more info.
Base of snowpack still facets and large depth hoar with a couple weak crusts above.
