Quick report
- Collapsing
- isolated
Overall stable snowpack on north facing slopes below tree level, BUT there is a potiental to cause a large slide at ground level, releasing the entire snowpack if a trigger point is found on a slope greater than 30°. A distinct ice layer at about 11-12" depth that you can feel on a snowmobile and skis, it is slippery. Still feels like early season snowdepth.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 32
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 2cm
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Spitting graupel with light wind
Snowpack
The pit was 105cm deep on a north facing aspect below treeline that is protected by the wind. 2 distinct ice layers, at 27cm and 30cm depth and a faceted layer at ground level were found. We performed an ECT and PST, results as followed. ECTX and PST95/100arr. We gave some "good measure" hits after finishing the ECT and we did get the faceted ground level snow to fail, it took some convincing. The 30cm depth ice layer has facets underneath, but we could not get to propagate, it would fail in isolation. Still some unsure-ness about the ice layers and how they could potentially react.