Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, sunny, warm
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, steepSlopes, sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- terrible
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, heavy, wet
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionTemp
Snow had icy crust in the morning which quickly warmed and softened. In morning, select open glades did have 3-5mm Surface Hoar. Snowshoe day in trees and looking at a Size 2 natural Wet Loose avalanche debris in the North Bowl of Mt. Keenan (beside Sasquatch Mountain Resort). Height of Snow ranged from 120-200cm in the trees at 1050-1150m. Snowpack is fully saturated with lots of rain runnels.
Weather
- Rainfall Rate
- drizzle
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- none
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 185
- Slab Width
- 30
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 2
- Start Zone Aspect
- N, NW
- Vegetation Cover
- sparseTrees
- Start Zone Incline
- 45
- Avalanche Character
- looseWet
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 1290
- Runout Zone Elevation
- 1125
- Avalanche Observation
- moreThan48hrsAgo
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2026-01-12T10:15:00.000Z
Natural Wet Loose, Size 2. Suspected to have slid during heavy rain on Sunday or Monday. Start zone indicates water run-off from a steep chute on the North side of Mt. Keenan. 185 meter length, 30m width, 250cm depth at deposition zone. Toe of avalanche just reaching small trees at bottom of the bowl.