Pine Pass

Avalanche

Jonathan Eagles · Feb 20, 2020 · Chic-Choc Mountains

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Quick report

Weather
cold, windy, warm, sunny
Ride Type
alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes, sunnySlopes, openTrees
Stayed Away
steepSlopes, convexSlopes
Riding Quality
Good
Snow Conditions
windAffected, powder
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionSound

Did a ride for our AST2 course. Saw a size 1 avalanche under a broken cornice on a north east facing slope. Was probably a couple days old. Saw some shooting cracks in wind loaded areas. We avoided winded loaded slopes and slopes under cornices. Dug a pit on a NE FACING convex slope. Surface hoar layers at 15cm and 45cm. On the compression test, the shallow layer reacted on tap 5 (easy) while the lower layer reacted as a hard 5. The lower layer 45cm down did not react on our extended column test.