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SnowpackColdSmoke · Feb 9, 2021 · Coquihalla
Quick report
- Weather
- cold, windy, cloudy
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder
The cold weather has done a nice job preserving the recent storm snow and sucking the moisture out, creating a nice low density surface snow down to 40-60cm. 40-50cm boot pen and 20-30cm ski pen. Noted some cracking on skin track where recent loading occurred and observed the avalanche from Feb 7. The wind has transported 20+cm on the avalanche start zone and track with a crown still present. It was hard to determine what that avalanche failed on but it could be the stellars down 60cm. Ski cut a size 1 on a 40+ degree SE slope that released a 5-10cm wind slab. Did not notice any new avalanches. Good powder skiing with no movement on descent. Stay frosty, well that’s not hard right now, wind slabs may be a problem.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -19
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedModerate
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- overcast
- Wind Direction
- NE
- Precipitation Type
- none
Wind transportation light to moderate.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 300
- Site Aspect
- SE
- Site Elevation
- 1815
- Cracking Observed
- 1
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
CTH (BRK) down 60 on PPsd ECTP19 down 60 on PPsd PPsd crystal characteristics appear to be rounding. Large temperature gradient near top of snowpack (0-40cm), small temperature gradient mid snow pack (40-100cm).