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Low snow shallow hole

Published
Jan 8th, 2023 12:00 PM
Trapper Gilowski
Pine Pass
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

55.381960, -122.240590

Quick Observation

Went out for a ride in Hasler to see what we could see. We are dealing with a lower than average snowpack year. This is making travel harder in spots and on others a little easier, shallow snowpack means smaller holes. Knowing that we have a shallower snowpack and the faceted weak layer we chose to avoid steep terrain with rocky outcrops as we know this would be a likely spot to trigger avalanches. While traveling over a few ridges we suspected to have wind slabs we didn’t find them in those location but it was evident that the wind has been blowing as ridge tops were stripped down and cornices formed in isolated locations.

Weather

Nice day as the visibility was good to see lots, could cover was broken but the cieling was high temps were mild low of -6 and a high of -3 in the ALP but plus 3 at the end of the day in the parking lot.