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Some powder is still surviving from the wind, sun, and warming

forecaster, Wednesday 23rd October, 2024 9:33PM
<p>Strong west wind in the morning kept the snow from warming up too much. There were nice wind-blown drifts of powder in the alpine, but by midday sun-exposed slopes were starting to get wet and sticky. We saw a lot of avalanche terrain and surprisingly little avalanche activity, except one single size 2 avalanche in a north-facing slide path that would have been triggered in the afternoon by warming. We dug a quick pit in cutblock at 1600 m and got a notable snowpack test result (ECTP14) on a 30 cm deep surface hoar layer, but this layer did not seem to be producing avalanches today.</p>

Snow Conditions

Crusty, Powder.

Location: 51.05041000 -117.20694000