Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
As I approached the basin of Hyalite I dug a few hand-pits and noticed a significant amount of faceted snow towards the bottom of the snowpack. I performed an ECT on the steeper zone directly below the Summer Trail ski descent. Results did not propagate but did show ECTN14 nearly a foot down above the facetted layer of snow. After pulling the column, the snow sluffed away and showed minimal reactivity, I continued onward. Light cracking was observed below my skis while approaching the ridge line from wind drifted snow. This was expected and nothing was shooting out and propagating so I felt safe to continue approaching the summit. Snow skied well where there was snow but it is still significantly sharky. I received a small core shot on my decent. Minimal cracking while approaching ridgeline. This was well assumed prior to ascent.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 30
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- light
Snowpack
ECT test was performed at 9400' on NE facing aspect. This area was not wind effected Thin layer of freeze/thaw was witnessed on surface of the snow followed by 3" of light, fist density snow. Then another 4" of 4F dense snow. A small weak layer was formed between this layer and 1" of frozen snow from the melt prior to the most recent snowfall event. There was a foot of snowpack below this thaw that was filled with faceted snow. ECT was performed and a fracture was observed at the 14th hit, no propagation occurred. After pulling the column from the back, the snowpack sluffed over itself.