Roar Lake Area
Weatherdougbrownvancouver · Jan 14, 2021 · Duffey
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, sunny
- Ride Type
- denseTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder
Snowpack
Ski pen 50-60cm in the trees (lots of tree bombs had wrecked many of the tree zones with a bit of solar exposure). Ski pen 20-40cm in open zones at treeline. Profile 1870m SW facing, 30deg angle. Probed depth 210cm, bottom 10cm had no resistance. Pit depth 140cm 0-85cm Fist (slightly upside down, top 20cm) 86-140cm 4 Finger Compression Test: CT mod (16) 75cm DFs resistant planar CT mod (18) 100cm SH resistant planar Extended Column Test: ECTN 25 75cm ECTN 28 100cm
Avalanche
Numerous 0.5 - 1.5 avalanches observed on N & SW aspects. Observations taken from the 1900m shoulder, N of Rohr lake. Most debris piles looked size 0.5-1 (small pockets from convex or cross loaded features). Start zones of the three size 1.5-2 debris piles were not observed due to clouds. Avalanches ran mid storm cycle.