- Submitted by
- johngrahamkelly
- Observations date
- Monday, November 8, 2021 at 20:00
- Location
- 50.067387° N 123.262784° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Is this a point observation or a summary of your day?
- Summary
- Elevation above sea level
- 1,840m
- Elevation band
- Alpine
- Aspect
- NW
- Snowpack depth
- 300cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Ski penetration
- 37cm
- Snowpack test result
- Hard
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Sudden (`pop` or `drop`)
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 56cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Storm snow
Comments
Drove to 800m with chains and high clearance. Snow starts around 400m, chains on at 550m.
Trail breaking with a ski pen of 37cm above 1600m, visibility variable and moderate southwest winds above treeline.
ECT Results
12:44pm
1830m
Northwest aspect
38 degrees
ECTP22 down 56cm
Sudden Planar
No evidence of facets or surface hoar at ECT location. Rain crust from November 03/04 130cm down. No activity on the buried rain crust. Suspect the new soft slab storm snow and wind deposit over the weekend just isn’t yet well bonded to the high density layer below 56cm.
8cm wind slab topping did not propagate.
