Hankin

Today, we skied at Hankin and went to try to find a new location for the weather station. After spending some time doing weather station things, we dug a snow pit just above the warming hut and found 150cm of snow. In compression tests, I was able to produce hard results on the Dec facets at the bottom of the snowpack. I was not able to repeat the results in a second test. The rest of the snowpack looked well settled. We observed a natural size 1.5 avalanche in the morning bowl that had been released in the previous 48-72 hours. Skiing in the alpine looked rugged, with wind-effected surfaces and frozen roller balls speckled throughout the bowls. Skiing below the hut was decent until about 1100m then the crust fell pretty rough.