Vermilion - Lower Avalanche Path

Published

Dec 15th, 2020 10:00 AM

tsr.yau

Kootenay

Details

Type

snowpack

Coordinates

51.157520, -116.137240

Weather

The snowfall rate and wind picked up around 12:30pm as we were skiing out.

Snowpack

Test Pit at 1700m on a 36 degree west facing slope with HS = 75cm. 25cm of low density snow overlies the December 7th crust/surface hoar combo failing on easy compression tests. Surface hoar crystals were 15mm. The November 5th crust is down 50cm with facets below this to ground.