Quick report
- Aspect
- West
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3170 m
HT 180
Pit depth 120
30° Slope
Crust with facets above 15cm down. ECTN1 15 CM down facets above crust, but very poor fracture quality. Top layer of wind impacted snow would not even stay on shovel for shovel shear test before fracturing on same layer.
I was impressed by how shallow the snow pack was along the ridge and by how poor the structure felt. Soft, to crust to firm to hollow to very firm moving down to the ground. Given all this we experienced no sloughing on ski down microwave.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The upper third of microwave was wind drifted; but, decent skiing. </p>