- Submitted by
- AvCan Northwest
- Observations date
- Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 20:00
- Location
- 54.845200° N 127.807720° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Powder
- Wet
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Stormy
- Warm
- Wet
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
The freezing level was around 1300m today at Ashman Ridge. We received significant precipitation over the day, 15cm+ in the alpine falling as rain below 1300m. Skiing majorly deteriorated at 1400m.
We observed widespread pinwheeling at treeline and into low alpine. This included pinwheeling across the north bowl to 1750m.
In a snow profile, we observed the early-Dec crust with 5cm of facets above. This facet layer was not reactive in snow profile tests, but remains a layer of concern especially was we get more precipitation (read: load on our snowpack) overnight.
