Mount Phillips lower N/NE facing slopes
Avalancheandrewchaudet · Nov 14, 2020 · Elkford West
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -4
- Max Temp
- 0
- Min Temp
- -14
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedModerate
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- fewClouds
- Wind Direction
- SW
- New Snow24 Hours
- 60
- Storm Snow Amount
- 60
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- none
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 20
- Slab Width
- 5
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Wind Exposure
- crossLoadedSlope
- Avalanche Size
- 1
- Slab Thickness
- 20
- Trigger Sub Type
- accidental
- Start Zone Aspect
- NE
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Start Zone Incline
- 30
- Avalanche Character
- windSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2000
- Weak Layer Crystal Type
- stormSnow
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2020-11-14T10:35:00
Didn’t have any red flags skinning up the storm snow, rode a gentle open slope just to the south a bit on a NE facing slope no red flags. Had to get across a wind lip and go over a shallow wind blown section at 2200m. When traversing across with my snowboard where the pack was shallow and met the wind lip it cracked off to the ground no other layers was only 20cm deep there. the depth varied a lot. I probed any where from 20cm-120cms I dug a pit at 2300m where the snow was 100cm deep with the nov 4th rain crust sitting at 40cm with 60cms on top of it.