Ozalenka Sunburn

Submitted by
mhalik
Observations date
Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 01:00
Location
53.290140° N 120.474760° W
Reporting on
  • Snow conditions
Map for Mountain Information Network report: Ozalenka Sunburn

Snow conditions

Riding quality was:
Good
Snow conditions were:
  • Crusty
  • Powder
  • Wet

Information

The day was:
  • Sunny
  • Warm
Avalanche conditions
  • Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
  • Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.

Comments

Three days spent up at the Ozalenka cabin, sunny and warm for each one. We saw one quite large avalanche we suspected was a couple of days old and possibly triggered by a cornice fall on a north facing alpine slope. Suspect the weak layer it failed on was the mid February facets. We also saw several solar/warming triggered avalanches up to size 2 on south facing slopes and a few recent cornice failures. Sunny slopes had wet surface snow, but shady north facing slopes still offered a few cm's of powder and fun skiing so we stuck to those.
Poor phone photo but you can just make out the fracture line under the corniced ridge.
Dry powder could still be found on north facing slopes.