Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Elevation
- 2530 m
- Slope Angle
- 20°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>None to really speak of today.</p>
The most interesting part of this profile was finding relatively large, preserved near surface facets from prior to the January 12th storm. These were not reactive to in snowpit tests.
I also used this pit to compare the PST to the CST and had similar results on both pits. The requested data elements are below,
Regular ECTX: ECTX
Standard PST: 80/100
Crosscut PST:85/100
Slope angle: 20
Stability on similar slopes: Good
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Not an avalanche problem right now, but surface snow was somewhat weak. Skinning didn't feel like being in a sandbox so it could have been worse..</p>
In protected north facing trees above ~8200 feet snow was still soft, not wind affected, and skied very well. Aspects other than north and lower elevations were a different story and usually had a soft temperature crust.