- Submitted by
- Dominic Provost-Cardinal
- Observations date
- Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 22:41
- Location
- 51.390850° N 117.606030° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Stormy
Comments
My friend dug a pit near the top of ursus trees (line 21 in Douglas Sproul's guidebook). He was unable to isolate a column to do a compression test, the recent snow just broke to the early november rain crust simply by moving snow around the column. It was quite windy.