- Submitted by
- wardsbd
- Observations date
- Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:00
- Location
- 50.803940° N 115.217720° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Wet
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Left parking lot at 700am good freeze and supportive snow and easy skinning. Sunny all day. On the upper South slopes there was 30 to 60cm of dense settle snow on Fridays crust. Within the storm snow down 30 cm was a crust/ facet layer? the was giving moderate hand shears. Some cracking 10 cm down on the upper slopes where it was hot.
Skied down at 145pm got lots of pin wheeling and one large human sized snow ball chased me down. Skiing was heavy hot pow. Got sticky halfway down.
Supportive and mildy sticky on the way out. Should have got an earlier start.
