Wawa ridge pits
cmurrayschlitt,
Thursday 1st February, 2024 5:00PM
Skied up Wawa ridge to assess conditions and dug 3 pits.
Widespread breakable crust, occasionally supportive to skis depending on aspect. Ski pen 10-20cm when breaking through crust. Foot pen to ground most places. Ski quality is terrible. Snowpack moist to base.
Top 17-25cm 1F resistance moist slab composed of 1mm rounding facets.
Fist resistance facets beneath. Compression tests, and extended column tests had easy-medium planar fractures on this layer in 2 of our pits. See attached snow profiles for more info.
Base of snowpack still facets and large depth hoar with a couple weak crusts above.







Location: 51.09011253 -115.79586139