- Submitted by
- Ross Martel
- Observations date
- Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 17:30
- Location
- 49.347490° N 115.062790° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Terrible
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Hard
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Warm
- Wet
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
lower elevations received 10cm of wet snow Saturday night, at 1800m there was 15cm of snow on top of a 4cm supportive rain crust. It is hard to say how well the new snow is bonding to this crust since the new snow was not bonding to itself at this elevation so it was hard to recognize any instability, with any more warming or a wind exposed area, there is certainly a great surface for a slab to slide on. obviously above 0degrees at lower elevations -4degrees at 1800m at 10:30 am