Middle Creek Obs

Skied in the Middle creek drainage yesterday from 300-1400m on gladed, treed, and cutblock W facing terrain. -12, clear, and very light East wind. Average snowpack 180cm at 1000m. Snowprofile at 1000m on a W aspect, in a sparsely treed cutblock showed 40cm F snow over 20cm 4F snow over the Jan 6 surface hoar. Compression test moderate 14 taps Sudden Planer down 60cm on the Jan 6 surface hoar and compression test moderate 16 taps Sudden Planer on the Boxing Day surface hoar. Both layers were very well preserved. Numerous natural slabs had run during the storm to size 2 on all aspects in steep, open terrain treeline and below.