- Submitted by
- chataway.mike
- Observations date
- Monday, January 14, 2019 at 00:57
- Location
- 54.501786° N 128.959114° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Heavy
- Powder
- We rode:
- Dense trees
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Warm
- Wet
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
Comments
Saw one wet slab on south aspect of the dome at or just to the right of the normal up track. No other crowns seen. Lots of loose wet from trees and rock faces surrounding Shames. May need to zoom way in to see the crown in the pics as light level was low.
Skied trees inbounds, glorious wet umtracked powder. Walked back towards the dome at 1 to check things out and walked back inbounds at 3 (did not ski anything). Tried out a compression test on SE aspect at treeline. 2.55m snowpack depth, 22 deg slope. Collapsed on 17th tap down 45cm on what looked like surface hoar. No other results.
There was very little backcountry travel today, just us and an AST1 course. Minimal/no travel yesterday as well (other than the AST1 crew).
