- Submitted by
- Jeff Johns
- Observations date
- Friday, February 26, 2021
- Location
- 51.296942° N 117.050724° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Sunny
- Windy
Comments
Wanted to investigate the bond between the new storm snow and the Feb facets.
Dug an extended column test on a SE aspect at around 2200m. Height of snow was 200-210 with 35cm of storm snow on top of the facets. Solar aspects blessed us with a sunburn and a breakable crust 10cm down.
Storm snow is right side up ranging from fish hardness on top to 4 finger on the bottom. It sits on fist hard facets.
Our extended column test gave us a sudden planar result across the whole block on our 12th hit. The failure was on 0.5 - 1mm facets.
This reinforced our suspicions and we skied good snow conservatively.