Sketch in the Tet

Quick report

Weather

stormy, warm, wet

Ride Type

denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees

Stayed Away

convexSlopes, steepSlopes

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

deepPowder, heavy, wet

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionTemp

Super sketchy conditions as expected and we stayed in Simple terrain. Snowing 1100m and up but super wet until 1350m. We dug a pit at 1350m E aspect low 30 degrees. 1st CT failed sudden planar 45cm down on isolation on the interface between the 2 recent storms. With a few from elbow it failed sudden planar 10cm below that again, and then with 3 from shoulder it failed 130cm down. We did an ECT as well and it also failed sudden planar 45cm down after 3 from elbow, full 90cm slid. Tons of whumpfing around 1400m. Lots of pinwheeling up till 1350m. No natural avalanches observed, although visibility was not far. Probed 300cm snowpack at 1350m