Better than expected!
Quick reportT.S. · Jan 17, 2025 · Coquihalla
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
12-15cm fresh dry from Thursday night, over a variable Melt Freeze Crust (Jan.15). Multiple slides on steep, south facing slopes of Yak and the SW facing bowl north of Zopkios...mostly point release, some small slabs. Challenging conditions around large trees due to ice and basketball sized treebombs that are frozen solid. Open and sparsely treed areas will provide great ski conditions.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -4
- Min Temp
- -10
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- fewClouds
- Wind Direction
- NE
- New Snow24 Hours
- 15
- Storm Start Date
- 2025-01-16
- Storm Snow Amount
- 15
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- none
Wind at ridgetop. Calm at observation plot.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 183
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- N, NE
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1470
- Ski Penetration
- 15
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Foot Penetration
- 45
- Test Failure Depth
- 25
- Site Elevation Band
- btl, tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow, surfaceHoar
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- crust, facets
If there is a layer of concern at this location and other north aspects in the area, it would be a MFcr down 25cm with a mixed form of Rounded Decomposing Fragments that are beginning to Facet with this cold weather.