- Submitted by
- AvCan Northwest
- Observations date
- Monday, January 13, 2025 at 20:00
- Location
- 55.438160° N 127.491290° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Powder
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Sunny
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
Comments
Today we went up to Kispiox. We found a shallow snowpack with an average of 1m at treeline (around 1500m). Below 1200m, the snowpack depth tapers rapidly.
On the lee side of a treeline ridge, we found a previous size 1 machine accidental avalanche. To our surprise, a damaged snow-machine was left behind in the debris. The crown was 60cm deep and failed on facets above the early-Dec crust. We dug a crown profile and found facets between 2-3mm in size, down 60cms. The facet layer is nearly 10cm thick, below this we found the early-Dec crust.
