- Submitted by
- HoldenT
- Observations date
- Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 20:00
- Location
- 49.225504° N 124.597718° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Wet
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Foggy
- Stormy
- Wet
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
Comments
It’s hard to see in the pictures but we saw a fresh looking runout of a wet slab or wet loose avalanche, not sure because we couldn’t see anything but the runout due to the fog. Either way, looked like a category 1. We bailed on our objective of summiting via the main gully due to the stormy weather mixed with the obviously dangerous avy conditions. There also seemed to be a layer of thick ice below the snow, which made for very sketchy boot packing. 100% recommend ice axe and crampons.
