Montana Crest
Observed Dec 4, 2022, 2:00 p.m. PST · Selkirks
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Quick report
- Comment
- Beautiful day in the backcountry around RMR. An inversion brought warm temps and the sun was baking the snowpack on south facing slopes around noon. Melting on trees was a good indicator that things were warming up. A quick pit earlier showed obvious layers (the deepest was the Nov 17 layer) that could cause problems if the top layer started to have some cohesion which the warming temps gave it. This size 3 avy was skier triggered by a skier ski cutting the top of the slope. The slide easily propagated as it moved down the hill.
- Ride type
- Sunny slopes, Open trees
- Stayed away
- Steep slopes
- Riding quality
- Good
- Snow conditions
- Powder
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition sound, Avalanche condition temp
Avalanche report
- Comment
- Inversion brought warm temps to the alpine. Sun warmed the upper layers of the snowpack, avy was slide on old surface hoar from back in Nov.
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Avalanche size
- 3
- Trigger sub type
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- SW
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Avalanche observation
- 12to24hrsAgo
- Start zone elevation band
- Alp
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2022-12-04T22:00:00.000Z