Quick report
Snow Surface / Skiing Conditions: A very thick rime ice crust covered the snow surface on all aspects, creating poor and variable skiing conditions Nothing unstable on the surface but pit results indicated a persistent slab is still lingering
Weather
- Air Temp
- 32
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Cloudy and warm
Snowpack
Dig a pit at 8850ft on WNW aspect Total Snow Depth: 220 cm Surface Conditions: ~0.5 cm rime crust present on the surface. Made for terrible skiing. Snowpack Tests: - ECTN 14 @ 25 cm – Failure within recent storm snow. No propagation. - ECTN 24 @ 40 cm – Failure in mid-storm layer. Fracture did not propagate. - ECTP 26 @ 80 cm – Full propagation on the January drought layer. Also saw some wet slide avalanche debris on south facing chute across the valley