Mt. Allan Brooks

Went out for a day of training which surprised us with great turns. Snow depth is still quite shallow in the trees as we were hitting a rain crust for 3/4 of the way to the summit. But the top was really good! We saw zero signs of avalanche and even tested some north facing steep features with zero movement. We did companion rescue review around 1100m and there wasn't enough snow to bury transceivers more then .7m deep We dug a quick pit on a north aspect at 1395m for training purpose. We had a height of 170cm, the top 40 cm were fresh snow sitting on a rain crust. Below that crust was a good bit of consolidated snow about 1 finger firm sitting on (what i assume) is early season crusts about 114cm down. Above 1395m a couple quick hand shear tests had the 40cm of freshy stuff slide with resistance. Was worth the day out!

hand shears consistently failed on top of a rain crust and a Rutschblock test failed at RB6 with 2 non propagating failures in the top 20cm of new snow