- Submitted by
- Uphill Snowlerblader
- Observations date
- Saturday, April 4, 2026 at 22:00
- Location
- 50.828190° N 115.305110° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Powder
- Wet
- We rode:
- Cut blocks
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Open trees
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Went out in search of dry snow and found it in some tight, north facing glades between 2100 and 2300 meters. Dug a test pit at about 2300 meters and found 170cm height of snow. Bottom 90 cm was depth hoar with a 20cm thick dense (1 finger) slab on top. This was capped by a 10cm thick crust-facet-crust sandwich. A compression test produced a CTM14 non-planar break failure on this facet/crust combo. The overlying slab was 25cm of 4 finger dense snow grading into 15cm of soft dry powder on top.
