Wawa Ridge

Fun laps of Wawa bowl. The snow was variable. Ski pen during skinning varied 0cm to 40cm and the skiing was equally variable. Dug a pit before the bowl, full results in the "Snowpack" tab.

Broken clouds in the AM, and the snow arrived around 2pm as forecast. Mild westerly winds all day

Snowpit. E-SE aspect. 2400m. Slope angle 32deg. HS 110cm. CTV (SP) down 5cm. Windslab sliding on windslab. We did shovel-shear tests to see the extent of this problem. Some spots showed no reaction, others showed propogation (~ 1m wide fractures) the moment we pulled on the shovel. We were probably finding pockets of poorly bonded windslabs... CTM13 (SP) down 45cm on facets/decomposing crust. We did a shovel shear on another column 2m away and confirmed that this layer is reactive. CTM18 (SC) down 70cm on facets/decomposing crust. The collapse was clear as day, but we could not get our column to slide, so no other tests for this layer.