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Quick reportintothineyre · Mar 15, 2026 · Spray - KLakes
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, sunny
- Ride Type
- openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow
A window of opportunity today in between the recent good snowfall and coming warming precipitation forecast for this week. Cold -18 morning at the parking lot. Despite only a high of ~ -7, when the wind was calm and the sun was out it warmed things enough to cause some pinwheeling. Several small avalanches coming off the peaks. Stayed BTL where top storm snow layer was unconsolidated and skied nicely. Below storm layer, hand shears generally resistant until next soft slab layer down would slide on a crust ~45 cm down. When we considered pushing into steeper more open terrain we dug a pit. A very sudden planar ECT result of M7 on a deep layer made our eyes widen more than expected and we stuck to moderate terrain.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -7
- Min Temp
- -20
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- moderate
- Sky Condition
- scatteredClouds
- Wind Direction
- NW
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- none
Winds very light BTL with occasional moderate gusts. Snow blowing off trees was mostly loose with only occasional minorl snow-bombs. More steady moderate winds at ridge tops with snow transport. Clouds: light cumulus along with cirrus higher up; a change is coming.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 190
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- E
- Site Elevation
- 2190
- Ski Penetration
- 20
- Foot Penetration
- 35
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
1 pm: -7 and sunny with calm wind 2190 m elevation; E aspect; 25 deg. slope; HS 190 cm: CT M8 @ 165 cm CT H3 @ 135 cm RP CT H5 @ 90 cm on top of hoar layer ECT M7 @ 100 cm (very) SP in thick 4F hoar layer
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 1.5
- Start Zone Aspect
- E, NE, SE
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Avalanche Observation
- 12to24hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2026-03-15T19:00:00.000Z
Observed several natural releases on steep alpine slopes up to size ~1.5 coming off Black Prince and Warspite peaks. Some just sluffing, but some more substantial and likely slabs.