- Submitted by
- Wesley Gregg
- Observations date
- Friday, March 10, 2017 at 18:20
- Location
- 52.858782° N 121.654693° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-121.65469251573086,52.85878174837796,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Cariboo Mountain, March 10")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
This morning at 1020 a skier triggered a size 1.5 avalanche in a cross loaded slope by skiing too close to buried rocks (shallow snowpack). The skier was able to ski out, luckily. The storm slab propagated up the adjacent slope up to 60cm's thick failing on a faceted layer. The slide ran for approximately 100m and was 30m wide. Wind was light out of the north east, light flurries, 7cm's of new snow overnight, North/Northeast aspect apprx 30 - 35 deg.
