Quick report
- Aspect
- West
- Red Flags
- Cracking
- Elevation
- 2195 m
- Slope Angle
- 22°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Minor, localized cracking 1-2' from the ski, no propagating, more of the rime crust simply breaking.</p>
I abandoned the ECT at 20 hits after I had compressed all the surface snow and pushed the shovel all the way down to the Pen/Knife hard layer 22 cm above the ground with no movement in the column.
Snowpack
Surface hoar is starting to develop on the top 2 cm but otherwise, the snow structure on this west facing slope is much better and more stable than I've seen on other NW-N-NE-E facing aspects in the last week. Still the rain/rime crust from 12/23 a few inches down which is breakable and makes for unpleasant skiing.