Forester
AvalancheYYCSplitboarder · Dec 12, 2021 · West Purcell
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy
- Ride Type
- openTrees, mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, alpineSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow
Deep powder. Lots of recent avalanche activity that came down from overhead hazards the night before. Avalanches that we saw likely happened the night before and originated with storm snow on steep alpine chutes that ran and stepped down to the rain crust once they hit tree line. Be very aware of that deep persistent weak layer as you travel. Conditions were great on the surface but beware of overhead hazards and potential for deep slab activity…
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- N
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 2000
- Ski Penetration
- 30
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Foot Penetration
- 100
- Sled Penetration
- 45
- Test Failure Depth
- 30
- Site Elevation Band
- btl
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
Had an unconsolidated layer about 30cm down slide on CTM12 then had another consolidated slab release on CTH22 that was another 30 cm down on a very consolidated wet base layer, possibly the Rain crust.
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 400
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 2
- Slab Thickness
- 30
- Avalanche Character
- looseDry, persistentSlab, stormSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Avalanche Observation
- 12to24hrsAgo
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2021-12-12T14:00:00