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Too deep to turn

Published
Feb 1st, 2022 4:00 PM
kchristensen
North Selkirk
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

51.152574, -118.131059

Quick Observation

Went skiing in some mellow trees. Lots of natural activity, whumpfing, and shooting cracks kept us playing it safe and straight lining through approx 30cm ski pen. Very little slab consolidation found while doing hand shears next to our skin track. SH was observed approx 40cm down Rode adjacent slopes, up to about 30°, to slopes that had already avalanched during the storm. Didn't get any significant results while skiing these runs, likely due to the unconsolidated nature of the cold smoke.

Avalanche Information

Lots of natural avy action from the last storm. Observed many natural avalanches ranging from dry loose .5 to size 2 storm slab. All storm slab running on what seemed to be SH, no step downs could be seen. Most unsupported convex slopes had crowns and we saw natural avalanche evidence on terrain features I would not have expected (low angle tight trees).