Still Amazing!
Quick reportJonBeaupre · Jan 12, 2025 · North Columbia
Quick report
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- powder
Riding quality was awesome on all aspect apart from SW ridge top where wind affected snow was present.
Weather
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- scatteredClouds
- Wind Direction
- NE
- Storm Snow Amount
- 15
- Precipitation Type
- none
Periods of sun during the day. Sun was very hot when it came out but air was cool enough so no major change in surface snow condition at 2200m elevation on SE aspect.
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- N, NW, S, SE
- Site Elevation Band
- alp, tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
15 cm of Fist low density snow on the surface Formation of surface hoar (5-10mm) on north aspect (see picture) - 15 cm Sitting on a sun crust on south aspect - 15 cm Sitting on wind compacted snow (1F) on NE to NW aspect No signs of instability. Sloughing on steeper terrain.
Avalanche
- Start Zone Aspect
- NE
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2000
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2025-01-12T15:41:00.000Z
Multiple dry loose from steep rocky features