- Submitted by
- Sean Craig
- Observations date
- Saturday, January 14, 2017 at 13:14
- Location
- 59.663210° N 135.140420° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Terrible
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Hard
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Stormy
- Warm
- 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
Went to check out some simple terrain around summit creek with the high avy conditions over the weekend. Winds apprx. 60 km/hr at the road, from the south with extensive blowing snow, limited visibility. We got half way up summit creek, slope was heavily wind affected, surface was hard, crusted, lots of snow stripped rocks with intense wind and blowing snow. We decided to cut our losses and made a kicker off a ledge in some nice powder that was shelter from the wind in some mellow terrain.