- Submitted by
- jon
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 16:00
- Location
- 51.249570° N 116.074920° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Hard
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
Comments
Rode the Kindergarten Couloir on Sunday. Extremely cold start in the morning, but rapidly warmed up as we got closer to noon. Some sluffing from the top as the sun hit the ridge above us. No signs of Cornice failures (yet).
Multiple recent small (size 1-1.5) slides in the fan below the couloir where sluff had overloaded and triggered wind slabs, and one size ~1 in the middle of the couloir. Still potentially some pockets on the fan that could rip with the right trigger.
Dug two pits near the top of the fan. Both were failing ~12h about 50cm down SP. Took a bit of work to get them to fail, but when they failed they failed with some force.
