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Low Angled Pow - Tunnel

Published
Jan 28th, 2018 12:00 PM
Eddie Petryshen
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Details

Type

snowpack

Coordinates

49.366980, -115.037870

Quick Observation

We avoided all run outs zones and stuck to dense trees and mellow slopes. No whomping or shooting cracks and major debris has been buried by storm snow. We did witness some interesting decision making (given the conditions) from other groups. A skin track was running parallel to the edge of a major avalanche runout zone for at least 300 m (first photo). There were also ski tracks in major run out zones in exposed terrain. Incredible skiing out there but safe route finding and a conservative approach is pretty essential right now.

Snowpack

ECT on South aspect at 1900m. 70 cm of storm snow with weak hoar layer below that. Sun crust at 110, hoar at 135, halloween crust at 220. Snowpack 260cm. 70 cm weak layer propagated on 15 taps.