glemke camp3 / coleman creek campground ava path
AvalancheGarth Lemke · Feb 26, 2021 · Icefields
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, sunny
- Ride Type
- openTrees
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
No whumphing or cracking or drum sounds. Snowpack barely supportive to skiis thus bring the fat skiis. Made it to the rock/cliff band in the lookers right main path to top of the fan at 1820m. High alpine above the fan has allot of snow, looks windslab, and some large looming hanging cornices.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -5
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedCalm
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- fewClouds
- New Snow24 Hours
- 3
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- none
Snowpack
- Depth
- 150
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- E
- Ski Penetration
- 20
- Foot Penetration
- 60
- Site Elevation Band
- tln, btl
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
~150hs. Top 100cm is facets mostly unconsolidated powder (F-4F minus midpack) with little structure over 20-30cm depth hoar over ground. It is barely supportive to skier weight when skiing as tails sinking through and nearly torpedoing over the tips when charging. Much better with a snowboard.
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Wind Exposure
- windwardSlope
- Avalanche Size
- 3
- Start Zone Aspect
- S
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Start Zone Incline
- 40
- Avalanche Character
- windSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2800
- Avalanche Observation
- 24to48hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2021-02-26T22:39:00.000Z
No new ava noted on drive down at 10am. On drive home @ 3pm noted one sz 3, maybe 1-2 days old, 2700m, S asp, alpine, steep, cross loaded/wind pressed in the Northern most alpine bowl of Nigel peak. Started in lower slope and could not see runout. Only able to observe when driving North. JNP parks team had also observed it.