The mountain we call no name elkford
Quick reportandrewchaudet · Feb 5, 2022 · Northwest Inland
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, sunny, warm, windy
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, openTrees, sunnySlopes
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- OK
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder, heavy, powder, wet, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionTemp
It was a touchy one above town today. We found buried surface hoar and facets depending the aspect with 15cms heavy dense snow on top. Lots of shooting cracks and whomps from 1800-2200m on a protected east facing slope. HS 140-160 that elevation band also. Once we got into the more dense trees conditions were better and the cracks and noises stopped, gained the far lookers right ridge. Noticed a lot of drum sounding, hollow snow at ridge top broke off a 1m x 1m x 50cm slab that dropped but didn’t run… but we did and quickly. It had warmed up close to 0 at 12:30 @2200m but the sun was mostly behind cloud all day 3/4 sky. High winds from the sw on ridge top lots snow transport. Across the valley there was a slab avalanche south face wapiti size 1.5 possible rock fall from animal above. couldn’t tell how deep.