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Blue Hill. Feb.22 Avalanche incident site

avcannlLong Range Mountains
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Quick report

Weather
cloudy
Ride Type
mellowSlopes, openTrees, denseTrees
Stayed Away
steepSlopes
Riding Quality
amazing
Snow Conditions
deepPowder, powder, heavy, windAffected
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionSlab

The south facing aspects of blue Hill have almost all avalanched since the weekend past. We found reactive wind slab on these slopes where wind deposited snow still remained. Shooting cracks, whoomphing, and easy results in our propagation test. The wind slab was failing on the first prominent temperature crust down 22 cm in our pit location at 400 m. We observed small facets on top of this crust, which lets us know this problem could linger around a while yet. 10-15 cm of new snow sitting over consolidated snow from earlier this week in the forest. Fantastic snowmobiling in wind protected areas. Very poor visibility didn’t allow any bigger slope observationsor or travel.