Purcell Wilderness
Avalanchetimjamesmckee · Feb 17, 2020 · St. Mary
Quick report
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder
Weather
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- moderate
- Sky Condition
- scatteredClouds
- Wind Direction
- SW
- New Snow24 Hours
- 5
- Precipitation Type
- none
Light winds at tree line, moderate gusts at high point reached on ridge line (2515m)
Snowpack
- Depth
- 200
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- W
- Ski Penetration
- 20
- Site Elevation Band
- btl
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
50-60cm of snow above the Jan rain crust. Rain crust present to 2000-2100m. HS at 2300m was deeper than I could probe with a 2.4m probe.
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 3
- Start Zone Aspect
- E
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Avalanche Observation
- moreThan48hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- btl
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2020-01-29T13:05:00
Old debris from Jan rain event. Most paths that ran went to the top or mid of run outs