Disease ridge
Avalancheplabrosse · Mar 18, 2017 · South Coast Inland
Quick report
- Weather
- stormy, windy, sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes, sunnySlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- Amazing
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, heavy, windAffected, powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab
Sun came out late afternoon creating moist snow to 1750m. Steep convexities ski cut with 1.5 Sc result. steep convexities in open trees had sluff running on the crust easily with some shooting cracks in isolated wind loaded areas. Wind transport was very significant, breaking trail on every lap with winds from the SW.
Avalanche
Ski cut a stmslab in steep, heavily windloaded convexity.Failure initiated immediately below ridgetop and Propagation went both sides of a rock outcrop. Slide did not run down to the flats, stopped 3/4 of the way down moderately steep slope (~30 degrees). Failure appeared to be on the march 15th crust.