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Touchy Storm Slabs

Published
Dec 17th, 2020 2:00 PM
ghelgeson
Long Range Mountains
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

50.949559, -118.067933

Quick Observation

I’ve been installing weather stations in Northern BC for the last week and am honestly a bit out of touch with the local snowpack. That being said, I was out for a day of personal skiing today and the upper meter of the snowpack is a mess. We encountered touchy storm slabs 20 to 50 cm in depth on north facing features at treeline that produced a humbling amount of debris. One skier triggered avalanche actually stepped down to the crust. We kept travel conservative and had a great day, but it’s game time out there and the hazard is real.