Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2713 m
- Slope Angle
- 23°
The early October snow was capped with a 4cm melt/freeze crust. There was significant faceted snow above and below the crust. The thick 4F snow above this lead to good support on skis, but when you stepped out of your skis, you sunk to the bottom of the snowpack.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Early in the season the Murdock area generally has a very wea snowpack with a significant amount of facets on the ground. We were surprised the relative stability of the snowpack. We were expecting it to be much more reactive to our extended column test (ECT) than the ECTP 28 result that we got. This matched the PWL avalanche problem in the forecast of being unlikely. Our ECT result of breaking into the basal faceted layer also matched the PWL problem of a slide being relatively large if it does break. </p>