- Submitted by
- mtattersfield
- Observations date
- Friday, December 9, 2016 at 02:00
- Location
- 51.385300° N 120.012530° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Is this a point observation or a summary of your day?
- Summary
- Elevation band
- Treeline
- Aspect
- E
- NE
- SE
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Foot penetration
- 50cm
- Ski penetration
- 20cm
- Snowpack test result
- Easy
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Sudden (`pop` or `drop`)
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 15cm
- Surface conditions
- Facets
- Surface hoar
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Other
- Surface hoar
Comments
As of Dec 8th. Great ski conditions. Rimed / faceting surface hoar on all aspects 2-5mm at treeline and below. Some wind slab forming right at at ridge top. Appears that another surface hoar layer (4mm) was buried around here last weekend (Dec 2 or 3?) now down 15cm, producing easy results in compression and shovel tap tests (3-6) in a test profile at 2000m, 33deg, NE aspect. Snowpack is right side up, F top 25cm, steady increase in hardness to P above Nov 12 crust (135cm down). Snow is now dry and faceting below the crust.