Santa gave too much sun for Christmas
Quick reportnolan312 · Feb 9, 2024 · Glacier
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, sunny
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- wet, powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionTemp
Sun affect was very strong in the cougar valley today. Attempted Christmas couloir but turned around halfway up the couloir, surface snow became very wet, rollerballs off rock outcroppings and sluffs off the rock walls of Ursus Major made us turn around at 10:30am. Sat near the base for the next two hours to enjoy the sun and saw 30+ dry loose sluffs coming off all solar aspects with several up to size 2.
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 2
- Start Zone Aspect
- S, SE, SW
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Avalanche Character
- looseDry
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2500
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2024-02-09T20:00:00.000Z
At least two size 2 dry loose avalanches came down off various solar aspects