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Ramp and Quartzite peak

Published
Feb 15th, 2024 2:00 PM
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East Side 93N
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

51.692856, -116.294203

Quick Observation
Headed toward Mosquito mountain but was looking a little thin. It's lower south slopes were breakable Sun crust on facets. So we headed towards Ramp and Quartzite. We had good skiing on both slopes. The top 50 m of both peaks were rocky. The faces both had between 30cm to 100cm of snow. 10-20 cm of light powder of a supportive crust over bottomless facets. In shallow areas the crust wasn't supportive. So there are weak areas that you could trigger the slope from. There were several size 2 deep persistence avalanches from the last warm up and a few small wind slabs and loose dry from more recently to size 1. We headed out the Drainage below the peaks and it worked out ok but is best avoided if the avalanche danger is higher.
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