- Submitted by
- nickawbrown
- Observations date
- Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 20:45
- Location
- 50.223720° N 126.335370° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Foggy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Observed whoompfing and long shooting cracks on a relatively low angle (<20 deg) slope just outside resort boundary. Failures seemed to be propagating on a recent ~10-cm thick wind slab, but the whoompfs likely indicated unobserved deeper instabilites. We didn't do a formal snowpack assessment.
We also received first- and second-hand reports of snowboarder-triggerd slab avalanches in the West bowl on both Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully those involved will submit separate MIN reports. We did observe one of the resultant crowns from the bottom of 3 o'clock trees. Looked to be size ~1.5.