- Submitted by
- forecaster
- Observations date
- Friday, February 1, 2019 at 20:00
- Location
- 51.005790° N 118.352190° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Cut blocks
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Stormy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
We rode up to Boulder to check on the new snow today and had awesome riding conditions in 35 cm of low density new snow. We didn't see much new snow cracking until the end of the day when we observed several small storm slab releases on steep cutbanks below treeline on our exit ride. These ran on a thin crust. We dug a quick test pit at treeline and had moderate, resistant results both at the new snow interface and a surface hoar layer about 10 cm deeper. We managed the conditions by sticking to smaller, low angled, low consequence slopes.
