- Submitted by
- Rick Roll
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 20, 2022 at 20:00
- Location
- 50.383733° N 122.306280° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Is this a point observation or a summary of your day?
- Point observation
- Elevation above sea level
- 1,950m
- Elevation band
- Treeline
- Aspect
- W
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 30cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
Comments
Expected west aspects to be safer but in multiple hand shear tests between 1850 and 1950m we found 2 shears at around 30 and 35cm. The layer in between these two weak interfaces was rather cohesive.
The column popped while still cutting out the block once. Other times harder to release.
No other signs of instability but bailed back to east aspects.