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Quick reportBrendan Tapanila · Feb 16, 2020 · Renshaw
Quick report
- Weather
- stormy, windy, cloudy, sunny
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- Amazing
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder, windAffected, powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab
While riding the Renshaw today we saw several small cornice releases, size one avalanche on a cross loaded feature (Northerly aspect) as we traveled through open terrain noticeably more wind affected conditions. We decided to investigate a leeward feature approximately 25 degree slope dug a pit and had repeated sudden collapse results @ 27cm and 43cm on a fist to 4 finger to fist wind slab interface, did extended column test no propagation found Boot pan depth was 80cm Tested some cross loaded cornice features only results were under machine