Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall
- Elevation
- 2713 m
- Slope Angle
- 21°
201cm of total snow for Murdock Peak is a big snow pack. Looking back at all of my Murdock Peak snow profiles since 2010, I did not find another one over 185cm.
The main weak layer we found was the dirt layer from the strong southwest winds in December.
We were unable to get any extended column test results. We did get a compression test (CT9) on a very small layer of graupel from early in the storm.
Slope cut results were in agreement with our pit results. We were able to only get new snow avalanches with our slope cuts. See this avalanche submission.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>In the area we were in, our biggest concern today was the new snow. In our snowpit, we dug 130cm deep and did not reach the persistent weak layer. </p>
There was a distinct unfrozen rain layer beneath the new snow up to 7,900'.
The new snow was very low density.