Pascal Trees

Pascal NW ridge, 20-40cm boot pen in the trees, wind pressed above 1800m, tree bombs have wrecked havoc on much of the tree skiing. See Snowpack for profile information. Key Snowpack Findings: Windpressed top 20cm poorly bonded, clean resistant planar failure, that didn't move (25deg slope angle) but did propagate. Layer cake of moderate to hard compression test, resistant planar failures from 45 to 85cms on decomposing fragments with no propagation. No crusts, no preserved buried surface hoar seen at this treeline location.

NE facing 25 degree slope at 1920m on NW ridge of Pascal. Key Snowpack Findings: Windpressed top 20cm poorly bonded, clean resistant planar failure, that didn't move (25deg slope angle) but did propagate. Layer cake of moderate to hard compression test, resistant planar failures from 45 to 85cms on decomposing fragments with no propagation. No crusts, no preserved buried surface hoar seen at this treeline location. Height of Snow 290cm (by probing from bottom of pit, no crust encountered by probing). Pit depth 145cm (mostly right side up) 0-20cm 4F windpress 21-50cm Fist 51-145 4F Compression Test CT Easy (1) 20cm Resistant Planar, clean but didn't move. CT Mod (19) 45cm broken CT Hard (22) 65cm Resistant Planar CT Hard (26) 85cm broken Extended Column Test ECTP (2) 20cm Resistant Planar (clean, subtle but definitely propagated all the way across the extended column, didn't move but slid off as a cohesive unit with minimal finger pressure behind the slab) ECTN (16) 50cm Resistant Planar ECTN (22) 65cm Resistant Planar ECTN (29) 85cm broken