Raining at Kieth's

Quick report

Weather

wet, stormy, foggy, warm

Ride Type

mellowSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, convexSlopes, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

terrible

Snow Conditions

crusty, wet

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionTemp

The Saturday night storm came primarily as rain at Kieth's Hut. Seemed to be about 10-20cm of new snow on Saturday morning that slowly turned from heavy powder to dense wet snow throughout the day as the precip transitioned from wet snow to rain. Glopping was an issue on the ski up. Around maybe 2PM on Saturday, several size 2 avalanches cut loose naturally from the Anniversary Glacier morraine. By Sunday morning a dense (~2inch) rain crust had formed. It seemed like the storm didn't change the snowpack depth but it did make all the snow denser and wetter. Stability seemed ok on our ski out since it was hard to imagine much movement happening under that thick rain crust. Skiing on the egress was primarily breakable crust.

Weather

Wind Speed

windSpeedLight

Blowing Snow

light

Rainfall Rate

pouring

Sky Condition

overcast

Wind Direction

SW

New Snow24 Hours

20

Storm Start Date

2025-02-21

Storm Snow Amount

20

Precipitation Type

mixedSnowRain

Avalanche

Run Length

100

Slab Width

100

Trigger Type

natural

Wind Exposure

leeSlope

Avalanche Size

2

Slab Thickness

30

Start Zone Aspect

N

Vegetation Cover

openSlope

Avalanche Character

stormSlab, windSlab

Number Of Avalanches

2-5

Start Zone Elevation

1650

Avalanche Observation

12hrsAgo

Start Zone Elevation Band

tln

Avalanche Occurrence Datetime

2025-02-22T22:00:00.000Z

Several size 1-2 storm/wind slab avalanches on the lee (North) side of Anniversary Glacier morraine. Partly covered the skin track going up to Kieth's Hut but no one directly witnessed the avalanches.