- Submitted by
- allenclimbs
- Observations date
- Monday, February 25, 2019 at 04:13
- Location
- 49.459630° N 117.118370° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
- Sunny slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
Exceptional weekend in the Whitewater Backcountry. Skied Friday and Sunday in the Five Mile Burn (towards Larch Peak) HS was anywhere from 190-210cm. Significant ridge top winds on Sunday morning from the East, typical of the last few weeks. Thin areas were suspect as we neared more exposed areas nearing ridge top with a few settlements. Lots of snow getting distributed into soft and hard slabs adjacent to ridge tops. Of note we skier controlled two Size 1 Wind Slab avalanches (Five Mile burn and Goat Slide) within 50m of ridge top on steep slopes, things quickly improved to low density snow (better) below. The sun didn't get a chance to really heat things up do to the wind keeping things fresh (likely close to -20 in exposed areas) so the west facing slopes stayed cool and awesome! Great cold smoke weekend!