Cheif Pascal
Snowpackchristinefeleki · Dec 19, 2018 · Cariboos
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, cloudy
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, steepSlopes, convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- Good
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow
We left the parking around 9:30am. It snowed lighlty all morning and off and on throughout the day. The winds were calm BTL with a light S wind at TL. Travel up the FSR's into mature timber is difficult due to barely covered alder and Christmas trees, but once you are in the forest it improves. Snow depths above 1500m begin to increase offering decent ground coverage. Once you are above 1700m there is 170+cm of snow. Skiing was great to about 1500m and then low snow and moist conditions begin to make it more difficult.
Snowpack
We dug BTL at 1736m, HS 177cm and had no results during and ECT and CT. But we did see results with a DTH23 SC down 105cm on rounding facets sized 1-1.5mm. This facet layer is about 15cm deep and sits overtop a crust. The crust is down 130cm. At 1942m HS 186cm CT produced no results. The Nov crust is 130cm deep with a thin facet layer over top.