- Submitted by
- ryker.lainchbury
- Observations date
- Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 19:00
- Location
- 49.038294° N 117.057298° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-117.0572981763452,49.038293932491825,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "East Lightning Bowl (Insert colloquial name here)")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Powder
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Dense trees
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Skied a couple laps in the east facing bowl off lightning strike summit. Some wind slab had built up on our first lap, stayed non-reactive for the lap. Upper 30m had about 10cm soft snow on a thin, breakable glassy sun crust. Soften up through the decent. Second lap the wind slab had thickened a bit and became slightly reactive. Both rider managed a decent amount of sluff, about 4-6cm deep slab. Probably extended ourselves more than we should have the second lap, noting some observed pinwheels on our skin up. We had whumpfing and settling on the convexs on the skin up lighting strike ridge, no shooting cracks. Observed some old avy debris on the small north facing chutes of the ridge.