- Submitted by
- Jeff Johns
- Observations date
- Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 21:30
- Location
- 51.288050° N 117.093080° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Stormy
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
Sheltered north aspects holding 20-40cm of unconsolidated snow. Steep wings holding a reactive soft slab that was propagating 10-15cm deep and 10-15m wide.
Storm snow in moraine features felt a little upside down with 10-20 of fist hard snow sitting on top of 10-20 of fist minus. Ski cuts on small testers slopes in the moraines produced soft slabs 30-50 deep propagating 3-4m wide and failing on the Dec 7th layer.
Disorganized wind gusts increasing later in the day with moderate snow transport and spooling around from the north to load Rudis south. A variety of aspects developing soft wind slab.