- Submitted by
- hyland.backcountry.safety
- Observations date
- Monday, January 23, 2017 at 02:55
- Location
- 54.842340° N 127.799620° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Foggy
Comments
AST 2 Obs: Day was foggy with poor viz. In general snowpack is well settled, with average depths at treeline of 150-185cm. Hasty pits on a south asp, treeline(1400m) open meadow, showed various old surface hoar layers in the midpack, giving hard compression test results (resistant planar fracture character) down 75cm. On a N asp, similiar elevation (1400m) Extended Column Test gave an ECTP27 on surface hoar down 55cm on the Dec 25 layer. Ski cutting short steep slopes produced only sluffing in recent storm snow. Main freezing level in the storm last week was at 1250m, and at treeline there is 20cm of recent storm snow sitting on a thin melt freeze crust.