Snowpack

Observation: Gooseberry Point

AaronSouthwest
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Quick report

Aspect
North
Red Flags
Heavy Snowfall, Poor Snowpack Structure
Elevation
3048 m

We skied the same zone as the pit submitted on 2/3. The PWL is becoming harder to trigger as the snow depth has increased significantly, but finding a trigger point in a shallow area on a steep slope would lead to a very consequential slide. We did not notice any cracking or collapsing as we did last week but saw more wind affected snow towards the top of the slope we skied. We did not see any fractures during our CT, which we performed twice, but did see a failure on a Deep Tap test on the faceted snow layer.

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>Bottom 25cm of the snowpack is large facted grains. </p>