Quick report
Diurnal recrystallization was present on the southerly aspects. Dug a pit on the south east aspect found a crust/facet/crust/Dh layer. on one of the hasty pits we dug on the west aspect where HS was 20cm had a wind board crust over faceted crystals to ground and on the same aspect 50 feet to the left the HS was 180 just goes to show the variability here with the wind we’ve been experiencing Went up Gothic today to observe the west to Southeast aspects for persistence, slab structure. no instability under foot wind slabs were stubborn however, the persistent weak layers were present as suspected on these aspects on Gothic.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 20
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Recent Snowfall
- Nil
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Pretty windy out there and cloudy no warming occurred on the southern aspects we traveled on today
Snowpack
On the south east aspect of Gothic around 11,500 feet are results were ECTPV on the /crust and ECTN9 on the 12/25 interface. On the west aspect the snow depth was super variable from 20 cm deep with no snow structure to 180 cm deep with a 1f hard slab over the 12/25 interface ECTN 15 @84cm
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- HS
- Aspect
- S
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 12000 ft
Looks like these wind slabs ran yesterday kinda hard to tell since more wind has blown in since then