Red Heather Deteriorating Conditions
Quick reportBCP · Nov 23, 2024 · South Coast Inland
Quick report
- Weather
- stormy, wet, windy
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, wet, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionTemp
Spent the afternoon doing some work around the Red Heather Cabin. The weather and snowpack conditions deteriorated throughout the afternoon. We had a mix of rain on snow, graupel, ice pellets, and heavy snow. Winds were moderate, gusting strong from the S / SW. We had one loud settlement in the late afternoon walking through an open meadow.
Weather
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedModerate
- Blowing Snow
- moderate
- Rainfall Rate
- showers
- Sky Condition
- overcast
- Snowfall Rate
- 1
- Wind Direction
- SW
- New Snow24 Hours
- 14
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- mixedSnowRain
Warm, windy, mixed precip throughout the afternoon. A very coastal afternoon. The weather was deteriorating further by 5pm when we left the field.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 100
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- W
- Site Elevation
- 1450
- Ski Penetration
- 29
- Foot Penetration
- 50
- Cracking Observed
- 1
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Whumpfing Observed
- 1
20-30cm's of moist storm snow was sitting on a 15cm layer of dry older storm snow. Increasing resistance below. The lower snowpack consisted of a few crusts and moist polycrystals to ground. We suspect the loud settlement we heard was on the interface between the surface storm snow and the dry lower density snow below.