- Submitted by
- Kevin S.
- Observations date
- Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 00:14
- Location
- 51.427872° N 116.330967° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Weakly supportive snow with lots of trap doors made for tedious trail breaking and punchy turns. Need another 30+cm to provide better coverage over exposed shrubs. HS 95cm at 2000m, NW aspect with the upper 65cm fist to 4 finger consistency and sugary facets below to ground. The Dec 15 surface hoar is dn 55cm and I suspect was the layer that was settling on us all day. That said we saw no new Avy activity. Wx cloudy, -5C mid day, winds light W, flurries with trace snow accum.