- Submitted by
- hn.truong01
- Observations date
- Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 10:00
- Location
- 51.307506° N 115.885135° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Hard
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- Sunny slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Wind slab on top of facets. First 2/3s of the trail was icy, didn’t bring ski crampons and regretted it. Once we got to upper tree line and above treeline snow quality improved however there was some shooting cracks near the top of the ridge.
Snow overall was pretty okay.
Roughly measured a meter of snow lower alpine and it thinned out to roughly 20-30cm at most near ridge. Coverage treeline and below treeline was relatively minimal.
