Loads of whoompfing at outhouse hill
Quick reportKylie Campbell · Feb 10, 2018 · Vancouver Island
Quick report
- Weather
- cold, windy, warm, sunny
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, steepSlopes, convexSlopes
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, heavy, hard, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionTemp, avalancheConditionSound
Driving in huuuge temperature. Hangs. Carcross -40. Log cabin -27. Fraser -18. Outhouse hill -10. Loads of whoomfing that was load and broad (actually made me jump out of my skin a few times). Lots of wind affect. Even in wind loaded areas it wasn't much snow. Icy in some parts. The higher alpine looked a sketchy with obvious old avalanche outlines or soon to be? Didn't get close. Decided to try log cabin instead
Weather
Obvious wind on road and in sections of remaining loose snow. Very cold wind compared to temperature.
Snowpack
3cm fresh Yukon snow. Ice crust. 1cm snow. 2-3cm ice slab. 3cm snow. Ice crust. 7cm snow. Ice crust. 4cm snow. Ice crust. 22degree slope Snow was coarse and grainy. Compression test, didn't yield any major shifts but sheer test failed at 60cm. Digging out was moving consolidated ice slabs of various sizes.