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Hankin Wind

Published
Mar 16th, 2022 3:00 PM
AvCan Northwest
Purcells
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

54.868690, -127.520440

Quick Observation

We went to the Hankin backcountry ski area today to have a look around. The ridge at Hankin historically gets a lot of wind and today was a prime example of the last few days of moderate winds. Lots of cornice growth, wind loading and wind slab development. Surprisingly we only saw one older(24-48 hr) wind slab avalanche, size 1. We chose our line carefully dodging the wind slab on the ridge and skied a conservative line in good snow.