- Submitted by
- esarhawkins
- Observations date
- Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 20:00
- Location
- 53.871980° N 121.680830° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-121.68083,53.87198,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Sugarbowl Powda!")
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Dense trees
- Open trees
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
Comments
Ski tour up to the ridge line above the main couloir on blue bird, but chilly day. 2-3 cm hoar frost in valley bottom. Incredible 30-40 cm of powder above ~1300-1400 m. Lower out-track was "dust on crust", but altogether quite good conditions for Sugarbowl. Some small failures on steeper slopes, but the failures were all low-density new snow and had very minimal propagation. In short, amazing day at Sugarbowl!
Snow Geek stuff below:
Pit at 1620 m on N aspect, 25 deg slope, open trees. HS was 310 cm, our pit went down ~130 cm. Quite stable results: CTM13 (resistant planar) down 20 cm, CTH24 (BKN - Non Planar failure) down 25cm and 50cm. ECTX - no result.
Top of pit at 135 cm
135-98: F
98-55: 4f
55-0: 1f hardening to 1f- by 0
