- Submitted by
- laportejer1
- Observations date
- Monday, February 2, 2026 at 21:48
- Location
- 52.365471° N 119.285585° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- Powder
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Stormy
- Warm
- Wet
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Raining from valley bottom to 1600m all day.
Above 1700m the snow quality was excellent with an average of 50 cm of recent HST over the Jan 28th SH/MFcr layer. Some whoomphing in a few open meadows were heard but significant lack of natural activity around. We observed minimal cracking today and all Test profile produce no significant results on the Jan 28. We were able Sc some very small avalanches at Ridge Crest on Lee slopes. These pockets lacked in energy to be able to propagate over features.
Overall it feels like there’s either a lack of slab property where the SH was preserved and/or where we found wind slabs today the surface hoar was previously destroyed by the wind.
We skied three Simple runs at TL and BTL where most features could only produce smaller then sz.2 avalanches.
