Shames to Terrace
Avalanchengottlieb · Apr 16, 2022 · Shames
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, convexSlopes, alpineSlopes, sunnySlopes, steepSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees, cutBlocks
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- wet, crusty, powder, windAffected, hard
Skied Shames to Terrace on Saturday. Evidence of a widespread wind slab cycle on a variety of aspects in the alpine to size 2.5 during last week's outflow event. Also evidence of a fresh (Friday probably), fairly big loose wet cycle below 1300m on solar aspects. Snow conditions were highly variable. Shady, sheltered pockets held boot-top facets but they were few and far between. Mostly bulletproof wind board in the alpine. Some hot pow on south alpine slopes. Heinous crust on the ski out but we were able to ski to 350m on the Anderson access road.
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 2.5
- Start Zone Aspect
- E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
- Avalanche Character
- windSlab, looseWet
- Number Of Avalanches
- 6-10
- Avalanche Observation
- 24to48hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp, tln
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2022-04-15T17:55:00.000Z
Slightly older wind slab cycle in the alpine 15-1700m, likely went when the wind came early in the week. Relatively fresh (estimated Friday Apr 15th) loose wet cycle below about 1300m on solar slopes.