- Submitted by
- southrockies
- Observations date
- Friday, February 17, 2023 at 19:30
- Location
- 49.631360° N 115.388490° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
Comments
Out at Lemon Lake today in the Bull River drainage, we skied a NW facing slope that doesn’t see much sun at this time of year, and enjoyed great, fast powder. We dug a hasty pit at 1600m, revealing a snowpack depth of 160 cm, with a strong crust 45 cm down. We had no significant snowpack test results, while the surface snow stayed dry with the temperature at -4. On the way in to our trailhead, we saw the debris of a Very Large avalanche (Size 3) out of an Alpine Bowl with East to South aspects in the start zone. Ran full path down into the Bull River. Probably a couple of days old, but difficult to say definitively. Note: the Bull River FSR is drivable from the dam for a couple of km but its very slick ice.