Tommy Treewell ?

<p>Another stormy day in the Rockies near McBride with snow piling up above 1000m in elevation, and rain/sleet pounding all the slopes below. The rain was triggering loose wet avalanches by midday and we couldn’t see well enough into the tree line or alpine to see what was happening there – but based on how much it was snowing and blowing our bets were on some reactive storm slabs forming up high. We dug a quick pit on a west facing slope around 1100m and found the surface hoar from last week buried by 45cm of snow and reactive in our snowpack tests (ECTP 13 and 22). Mostly we stuck to riding in trees and simple to non-avalanche terrain until both the visibility and avalanche hazard improves up high. </p>

Terrain Ridden

Dense trees.

Terrain Avoided

Alpine slopes.

Avalanche Conditions

Rapid temperature rise to near zero degrees or wet surface snow.

Snow Conditions

Heavy, Powder.

Weather Conditions

Stormy, Warm, Wet.