- Submitted by
- Eirik Sharp ACMG
- Observations date
- Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 21:00
- Location
- 59.738640° N 135.057160° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Avalanche conditions
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
Can confirm great skiing at Fraser. 45 cm of recent storm stow (F-4F) sits on 10-20 of harder (1F) wind packed particles. No wind effect was observed (upto 1750m). Recent surface riming could be felt but didn't detract from ski quuality.
Below the storm was a variable 10-20cm thick layer of firmer (1F) previously wind packed particles. Thin 2 cm layer of lower density (4F) decomposing fragments can be found sandwiched between this and the November crust, (down 60-80). This layer prodced moderate sudden planar results in compression tests but did not show any propogation propensity in an extended colomn test. Nor did we encounter ainy whumpgin other signs of buried instablity