Slidetastic Conditions on 5040
Quick reportsportnewk · Jan 4, 2025 · West Island
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, foggy, stormy, warm, wet, windy
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder, powder, wet
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionTemp
Another storm came through today starting at 10am bringing high winds (~60km/h) from the SW and heavy snow (~25cm). The snow stopped at 4pm and transitioned to a heavy mist which has started to soak the upper snowpack. Storm skiing was great in sheltered terrain below the alpine between 1350m and 990m elevation. Despite being heavy, the new snow was fun to ski. Numerous sz 1 slides were triggered on North slopes. The slides weren't propagating to lower layers, but instead sliding on last night's freeze crust and were only composed of today's storm slab. Biggest slide had a 30cm crown, 30m width, and ran 100m. Probed 2.3m @1130m elevation on North slope.
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Avalanche Size
- 1
- Start Zone Aspect
- N
- Vegetation Cover
- sparseTrees
- Avalanche Character
- stormSlab
- Crust Near Weak Layer
- 1
- Number Of Avalanches
- 6-10
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- tln
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2025-01-03T22:00:00.000Z
Occurred at treeline in open gladed terrain at various elevations between 1300m and 1150m.