Allen Creek gliding
marshall.dempster,
Saturday 8th February, 2025 10:38PM
<p>Out and about in the Allen creek riding zone over the last few days. We saw very little evidence of any natural activity other than some small surface sloughing out of steep alpine terrain. That was until we reached a feature know locally as avalanche ally. Much to our surprise as we looked up to make an assessment out of the fog came a rather large glide crack.
The first picture is actually from December 12, 2020. The second shows the progression of the large glide crack from today December 13, 2020.
We did a little investigating on an similar slope and found 20cm of large moist facets at the base of the snow pack. Above that we found the November rain crust (seemed to be bonding well). In the upper pack we found surface hoar down 25cm with a well consolidated mid pack and fist snow above. None of our testing produced any notable results. </p>
Terrain Ridden
Dense trees, Open trees.
Snow Conditions
Powder.
Weather Conditions
Cold, Sunny.
Location: 52.60639802 -119.21256243