Steep Saddle

Quick report

sasashredder · Mar 6, 2022 · Cariboos

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Quick report

Weather
cold, sunny, warm
Ride Type
alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes
Stayed Away
convexSlopes, steepSlopes, sunnySlopes
Riding Quality
Amazing
Snow Conditions
heavy, powder, wet, windAffected
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionTemp

Beautiful bluebird day in steep creek

Weather

Bluebird and beautiful. Warming from sun felt after 1 pm, but air temp didn’t rise too much throughout the day. All S slopes have been getting torched by the sun during these past two sunny streaks.

Snowpack

CTH23 above persistent mid feb layer. Resistant planer with large potential. Moderate probability with very high consequence. We dialed back our terrain choice after seeing our results.

Avalanche

Size 2.5 noticed across the bowl NE from Steep 2318 on very sun affected SW slope. Skier triggered by an unknown party with an exit path from skier 20 m below crown. Another party told us they knew the skier and they are alright. Unable to see specifics of incident (crown depth, crystal type etc.) as it was quite far away. Zoom in on last picture for image.

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