July Mountain and Mine Creek area

We had amazing touring conditions and stuck to simple terrain and glades. Powder was outta this world good. Test pit on an east facing 25 degree slope had easy shovel shear and compression test results at 30 cm below snow surface as well as a more reactive layer at 70 cm below snow surface. Some sledders were riding pretty crazy lines for the conditions and did not trigger anything; however, there was lots of evidence of natural avalanches in area that had occured at the 70 cm below surface layer within the previous 24 to 48 hours. Be careful out there for the next few days even on slopes between 22 to 30 degrees if in the Coquihalla area. We skied conservative lines and had no issues. Only heard one WHUMPF on the way out through the trees at lower elevation.

We observed evidence of numerous natural avalanches that had occured in previous 12-24 hours. While skiing two snowmobilers approached us and advised they had just triggered an avalanche after riding over an area a second time and undercutting the slope with z turns. The sizes of the natural avalanche activity we observed were between 1 to 2.

Day started at -7 degrees and overcast with snow falling. Moved to broken clouds and later clearing with sun visible and a cessation to the snow.

There were two layers of weakness at 30 cm and 70 cm. The 70 cm layer was most reactive. Both layers consisted of storm snow that had been cross loaded.