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Lots of wind loading happening

Published
Feb 4th, 2022 11:30 AM
southrockies
Northwest Inland
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

49.665620, -114.745470

Quick Observation

More snow being transported than we expected NW of Sparwood today. We saw natural wind slab avalanches in alpine, cross loaded features that happened while we were in the field and immediately before. Dug down to check if the persistent slab was in this zone, and couldn’t find any evidence of it. No whumpfing, cracking or failures in our test pit. We chose a sheltered spot away from wind loaded slopes to try and find some soft snow unaffected by the wind and were rewarded with some pretty good riding.