- Submitted by
- jbuzolitch
- Observations date
- Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 15:00
- Location
- 49.744140° N 117.674200° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Cut blocks
- Open trees
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- 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
We definitely stayed in the trees the entire time, making there was no overhead hazard, when skinning we went across the top of an opening in the trees. The slope immediately cracked and whumfp and then failed. The slad didn’t propagate further then the opening.
While skiing down the sluff was significant but not overwhelming. We stay in dense trees avoiding any opening.
We skid between 1450m and 2000m