Low Coastal

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, cold, foggy, stormy, wet

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees

Stayed Away

convexSlopes, steepSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

crusty, deepPowder, heavy, powder, wet

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionTemp

Snowline @ 500m. Was pouring up to 850m where it transitioned to sleet & ice pellets. It seemed like there were some warm updrafts that made it to moutain top @1350m. First lap at noon had a soft, moist breakable crust. Precip was very heavy graupel and ice pellets that built all day. By our last run @ 3pm the crust was under almost 10cm of graupel & ice pellets, which actually skied pretty well. I have never seen that much graupel at once, it was pretty cool! Steep rolls were touchy with shooting cracks around 1000-1100m where the snow was more moist and the crust was less pronounced. Popped several small isolated slabs that failed 10-15cm down from surface. We only observed this instability in this small elevation band. Was it ever a storm up there! Snowpack was about 150cm from about 1000 to 1350 (top) with basically all of it being recent storm snow from the past week. It was still over a meter down to about 750m. Did that ever fill in quick!