- Submitted by
- brent_b
- Observations date
- Sunday, January 17, 2021
- Location
- 52.706619° N 117.678188° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Did a lap up bald hills today.
The alpine was wind hammered with westerly slopes striped bare and east slopes very wind loaded.
We traversed a low angle angle south east facing slope and had the whole slope settled in a big whumpf