- Submitted by
- Hyland Backcountry
- Observations date
- Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 20:15
- Location
- 54.094410° N 121.407390° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- OK
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Foggy
- Stormy
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Spent a few days skiing in the Pass Lake area. There is currently @ 200-215cm snowpack depth at 1500m treeline elevations. Over the weekend over 70cm of snow fell . This buried the widespread raincrust that formed on Nov 18 - we found this crust right to the summits (1800m) in this area. On Nov 24, there was a major wind event, that created widespread windslabs at all al elevations in open areas. With a break in visibility sunday, we noted some avalanche debris in a few larger runout zones, suspect these were as a result of the wind loading. Ski cutting small, steep features did not release anything to the crust, but that was only a few, isolated tests.