- Submitted by
- brendankq
- Observations date
- Friday, March 16, 2018 at 20:00
- Location
- 50.698520° N 115.215680° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
Comments
20-25cm new low density snow in the last 24 hrs. Zero bonding to the buried sun crust on south and south-east aspects. We caused significant sluffs testing a steep (35 deg) S aspect in the morning, before the sun hit. Sluffs ran 40m or more and picked up steam until the slope angle dropped below approx 30 degrees (caused no sluffing below ~30 deg). Sluffs were definitely big enough to drag you and knock you into a tree (or tree wells, which were 2m deep). Also observed sluffs and point releases small and large off of E & SE facing headwalls and steep alpine slopes, a couple gathering steam up to size 2. Didn't hear a sound from any of the sluffs/avalanches as they ran. Skied N facing trees (30-35 deg) and sheltered avalanche path with no sluffing. The sun hit hard by noon and started melting snow on sun exposed slopes, while temperature remained below zero in the shade or N aspects.