Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Elevation
- 2926 m
- Slope Angle
- 21°
Felt an inclination to dig today so we dug. Digging took a while so the data gathering was a bit limited after reveling the product of our labors. Tried to fabricate a shovel shear test and a compression test with a 60cm tall slab on top of the facets since 200cm seemed excessive. The shovel shear test required moderate force and broke unevenly in the middle of the facet layer. The compression test was CTN. The same results occurred when I shortened the slab to about 30cm. I'm not sure if there's any real value in this information but it seems to me that the pwl would only fail here with an unreasonably large trigger.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>In our pits we noticed some instability at density changes where there were older layers of wind drifted snow but what was more exciting were the growing cornices along the ridge. I neglected to stop for pictures but there were impressive pillows and growing cornices along the ridge. Resembled a different ridge than the one I saw in mid December. </p> <p>1f hard rounding and sintering facets were found in the depths of the snowpack. This layer is gaining strength. </p>
Aspects which saw sun yesterday had a sun crust of varying intensity making skiing difficult on solars. The shady snow was a little heavy and settled but skied well. Conditions were quite variable where wind was in play.