Evans - goodbye stability

Quick report

Eddie Petryshen · Mar 16, 2019 · North Columbia

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Weather
warm, sunny
Ride Type
steepSlopes
Riding Quality
OK
Snow Conditions
crusty, heavy, wet, powder
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionTemp, avalancheConditionSound

Conditions fully changed on Saturday afternoon. Intense solar radiation and what appeared to be higher than forecasted freezing levels saturated the snowpack. We called it a day on the ridge of mt evans as ridge travel was no longer safe - solar on convex south slope and corniced ridge on north slope. We had two whumpfs in low angle terrain on southwest aspect. Skied a north facing steep slope - powder on top. At 2000m it turned to wet heavy snow. Lots of wet slides on solar aspects to size 2-2.5. I saw a report on facebook (no MIN report yet) of a wet natural slab avalanche on a solar aspect running to valley bottom in meachen (south purcells) on sunday afternoon.