Southern Monashees
Incidentryanhdanchuk · Jan 7, 2018 · South Okanagan
Quick report
- Riding Quality
- good
Great day of skiing, touched off numerous wind slabs of storm snow. 20cm to 40cm deep at or just below tree line. All of them right almost exact same elevation. North facing steep slopes at around 2000m. Also had heavy freezing rain to end the day, from near 2200m down to near valley bottom. Link to vid of one, was moving as I entered the chute: https://vimeo.com/250152529
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -5
- Max Temp
- -1
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedModerate
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- overcast
- Wind Direction
- SW
- Storm Snow Amount
- 30
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- mixedSnowRain
Freezing really picked up at end of the day
Snowpack
- Ski Penetration
- 30
- Foot Penetration
- 40
- Sled Penetration
- 40
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 100
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Wind Exposure
- downFlow
- Avalanche Size
- 1.5
- Vegetation Cover
- sparseTrees
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2000
- Avalanche Observation
- 12to24hrsAgo
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2018-01-07T11:00:00
Incident
- Group Activity
- skiing
- Number Injured
- 0
- Number Involved
- 0
- Number Caught Only
- 0
- Snow Depth Trigger Point
- shallow
- Terrain Shape Trigger Point
- unsupported
- Number Partly Buried Able Breathing
- 0