- Submitted by
- southrockies
- Observations date
- Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 20:00
- Location
- 50.103240° N 115.016620° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Warm
Comments
It was "R" ing in Fernie this morning so we headed North to Elkford where temperatures stayed a little cooler yesterday but there was only 5cm new snow and no signs of recent wind. Temperatures were warm +2 at staging and -1at 2200m. Warm temperatures and sun were the story today. These conditions were likely the cause of one of the south facing slopes on the trail to release a loose wet avalanche size 1.5 that followed a gully feature and stopped in the track. We also observed a size 1.5 on an east facing slope that was triggered by a cornice that released a small windslab. The sledding looked good but the snowpack is still shallow and we were breaking through the upper snowpack to the weak sugary snow at the bottom.

