Needle ridge laps
Quick reportDryrock · Mar 4, 2026 · Coquihalla
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, foggy, warm, wet
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, powder, wet
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionTemp
Good riding above 1600m. Below that was wet slush with no signs of instability. Higher we did the pit test. Storm slab was reactive all day. Very wet snow on surface, directly above a crust layer. Had about 12-15cm of new fresh snow. Heard a size 2? natural avalanche go off on north face of needle. Could not see where exactly.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 246
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NE
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1646
- Ski Penetration
- 8
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Foot Penetration
- 26
- Test Failure Depth
- 93
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- surfaceHoar
Put was dug in needle north bowl in a sparse treeline area at a 35 degree slope. CTH7 93 SP. single column test. Also did extended column test. No failure after 30 taps.