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Roar Lake Area

Published
Jan 13th, 2021 4:00 PM
dougbrownvancouver
Duffey
Details

Type

weather

Coordinates

50.416609, -122.446407

Avalanche Information

Numerous 0.5 - 1.5 avalanches observed on N & SW aspects. Observations taken from the 1900m shoulder, N of Rohr lake. Most debris piles looked size 0.5-1 (small pockets from convex or cross loaded features). Start zones of the three size 1.5-2 debris piles were not observed due to clouds. Avalanches ran mid storm cycle.

Snowpack

Ski pen 50-60cm in the trees (lots of tree bombs had wrecked many of the tree zones with a bit of solar exposure). Ski pen 20-40cm in open zones at treeline. Profile 1870m SW facing, 30deg angle. Probed depth 210cm, bottom 10cm had no resistance. Pit depth 140cm 0-85cm Fist (slightly upside down, top 20cm) 86-140cm 4 Finger Compression Test: CT mod (16) 75cm DFs resistant planar CT mod (18) 100cm SH resistant planar Extended Column Test: ECTN 25 75cm ECTN 28 100cm