Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2835 m
- Slope Angle
- 23°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Shallower pack overall, 110 cm in sheltered areas, but highly variable</p>
Newer snow is well consolidated, but lower half of the pack is moist facets that will pack. There is a lot of slash in this area from recent timber sale, and landmines were everywhere, hollow around stumps and slash, tipy-toed our way down but will improve with more snow. Slope angle just under 30, up to lower 30's on steeper rollovers. We experienced no cracking or collapsing, just punching through in unexpected places. Entire pack held together on ECT with no failures in area of snowpit
We dug pit near the top of the ridge in a more sheltered area
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>despite the noticeably shallower pack, overall pack has lost any energy and is sticking together surprisingly well</p>
Spatial variability in snow pack depth, less snow in this area than around the corner at Electric Lake, wind had stripped and redistributed snow, overall snow was punchier, worse in flatter more wind exposed terrain