Snowpack

Schuylkill Ridge

Ryan HuckGunnison
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Quick report

The potential for a large persistent slab avalanche is getting more rare as the snow adjusts slowly however the snow structure I observed still poses a threat of triggering a big avalanche. The Skin up was less than Ideal with the rain crust making it quite the effort. The snow on the north side of the compass was less than Ideal for skiing so, I was able to myself some shallow corn on the Southeast and South aspects of skooks Snowpack was fairly quiet I only had one small collapse on a saturated southeast aspect around ~11,000ft

Snowpack

The goal today was to target a slope on Schuylkill that did not run on the 2/17 or 2/11 interfaces, and still had a lingering hard slab over weak layers. I dug a pit on a East aspect around 11,300ft that I suspect had a preserved snow structure. HS~146 The snowpack above the 2/25 rain is a mix of DF with RGwp and FC, I conducted and ECT just above the Rain crust. There was still quite a hard slab on top of the 2/11 interface ECTP26 on the 2/11 interface. There was still well preserved DH at the base 3-4mm in size so I suspect this slope has yet to rip this season.