Selkrik Northerly Aspects
Quick reportremococco · Feb 23, 2025 · Retallack
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, sunny, warm
- Ride Type
- cutBlocks
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, wet
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab
Toured into the selkrik to asses the area. Dug a pit for educational purposes and found buried depth hoar creating non-propagating failures in our pit.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 150
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NW
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1600
- Ski Penetration
- 10
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Foot Penetration
- 20
- Site Elevation Band
- btl
- Whumpfing Observed
- 1
see snowpilot plot for details.
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 10
- Slab Width
- 20
- Trigger Type
- snowmobile
- Avalanche Size
- 1
- Slab Thickness
- 50
- Start Zone Aspect
- NE
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Avalanche Character
- persistentSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- btl
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2025-02-23T21:00:00.000Z
Saw size 1 avalanche when skiing out. Suspect it was caused by snowmobilers we saw zooming around today. Suspect it failed on the buried surface hoar we found in our pit, but didn't verify.