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Observation Subpeak South Ridge

Published
Dec 5th, 2020 4:00 PM
johnredaab
Glacier
Details

Type

snowpack

Coordinates

51.712087, -116.448636

Quick Observation

Toured gladed south aspect of Observation Subpeak South Ridge. Sheltered areas in treeline yielded blown in powder. Breakable sun crust in open trees. Traveled towards alpine SE aspect yielded hard unbreakable crust, wind and sun effected. Surface hoar in valley present. North gladed aspect on Cirque had stable snow. ECT26 Failure on North Cirque aspect at depth/Nov 4 crust facets. Did not propagate across across column. (35deg) CT15 Failure on Observation Subpeak Open Trees (38 deg)

Snowpack

Failure only on facets at Nov 4th crust