Crater Lake

Nice day to go dig a pit and try and get a sense of went went on Saturday. No i didn't ski in and no i didn't ski out lol Tag lines and crampons have their place :) Total snow depth was approx 4m. I dug to a depth of just over 170cm and got skunked by some incredibly hard layers and wanning energy. There was an approx 10cm new wind slab not noted 2 days prior. ECT looked something like this: H3 @ 14cm, failure. H5 @ 22cm, failure. H10 @ 52cm, pop. E16 @ 80cm, drop. No results beyond that. I wasn't able to cut below 160cm as the rope saw i have got beat up by the ice layer at that depth. Seriously. Snow temps; -6 @ 10cm, -6 @80cm, -8 @ 130 cm. In the guts of Crater lake and the "classic lines" that feed into it, wind was zero to <5kph all day. As soon as you left the shelter of that zone it was ripping 40-50kph. This explains the volume of wind deposited snow i suppose. I'll be sticking to the trees for a bit until warmer days flush out these slabs. Skiing was .... marginal at best in this zone of HBM. Skiing is fun. Don't forget to smile!!! :)

Nice day to go dig a pit and try and get a sense of went went on Saturday. No i didn't ski in and no i didn't ski out lol Tag lines and crampons have there place :) Total snow depth was approx 4m. I dug to a depth of just over 170cm and got skunked by some incredibly hard layers and wanning energy. There was an approx 10cm new wind slab not noted 2 days prior. ECT looked something like this: H3 @ 14cm, failure. H5 @ 22cm, failure. H10 @ 52cm, pop. E16 @ 80cm, drop. No results beyond that. I wasn't able to cut below 160cm as the rope saw i have got beat up by the ice layer at that depth. Seriously. Snow temps; -6 @ 10cm, -6 @80cm, -8 @ 130 cm. In the guts of Crater lake and the "classic lines" that feed into it, wind was zero to <5kph all day. As soon as you left the shelter of that zone it was ripping 40-50kph. This explains the volume of wind deposited snow i suppose. I'll be sticking to the trees for a bit until warmer days flush out these slabs. Skiing was .... marginal at best in this zone of HBM. Skiing is fun. Don't forget to smile!!! :)