Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3444 m
- Slope Angle
- 25°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Wind loading was visible. Got one collapse on a NE aspect when breaking through into the underlying facets. Poor structure exists on northerly aspects. </p>
Photo of pit in Coyote Chute. Any thing on the north side of the compass has poor snow pack structure.
Goldminer's- skied pretty well. This south aspect had almost entirely melted and contained dense new snow on top of grass.
Egress from Gold Basin was easy and fast. Lots of good skiing can be found on low-angle simple terrain.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Wind-stiffened slabs could be sensitive to weight of a rider. Active wind-transport was observed around 3pm.</p> <p>Early season snow has faceted, albeit under a variable crust. Didn't get propagating results on ECT but localized collapsing is strong evidence that with the right slab, this weak layer could produce an avalanche. </p>
Snow surface is a mixed bag. Lots of rime/clear ice falling off trees making the surface quite variable. Westerly aspects near treeline had a rime-crust.
Depth of snow pack seemed to vary from 30-70 cms.