Chickadee Valley - Boom Mountain chutes

Quick report

sam.beaver93 · Mar 24, 2020 · Lake Louise

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Quick report

Weather
warm
Ride Type
mellowSlopes
Stayed Away
alpineSlopes
Riding Quality
Good
Snow Conditions
crusty, powder
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionTemp

Good riding. No instabilities observes. About 10-15cm of fresh powder sitting on a thick sun crust. As the day got on the powder was getting denser and wetter, some indications of wet loose being possible (pinwheeling). Skinning up steeper sections at points was pretty slippy due to the sun crust.

Snowpack

Did a CT with results with a SP failure on CTH2 at 100cm depth. No other failures throughout. Layer observations of a slightly taller section of snowpack adjacent to pit: 190-175: Fist 175-165: Ice 165-160: 1F 160-150: Ice 150-80: 1F 80-65: 2F 65-40: 1F 40-0: Fist