Copper Crown Lines
Quick reportcolincarveth · Jan 26, 2024 · North Columbia
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, warm
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- heavy
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSound
Went for a walk up Copper Crown to the cut blocks. Significant settlement in the upper snowpack from previous warm temps has created a 30-35cm slab (F at the surface to 4F+ at the bottom of the slab) above a layer of Facets/surface hoar from late December I'm guessing (FC Sz. 6, SH Sz. 4). We triggered several Sr Sz. 1 avalanches below the road. As well we toe triggered multiple whumpfs causing wide spread settlements above the road. Kept things quite mellow (<25 degree slopes). Dug a pit at the top of one of the cut blocks at 1775M (HS 87, ECTP 3 down 30). Still managed to get 3 schnoodly laps in the low angle areas before calling it a day.
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 50
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Avalanche Size
- 1
- Trigger Sub Type
- remote
- Start Zone Aspect
- N
- Trigger Distance
- 3
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Avalanche Character
- persistentSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Weak Layer Crystal Type
- facets, surfaceHoar
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- btl
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2024-01-26T17:00:00.000Z
Surprising propagation distance. But terrain features benched out fairly rapidly.