- Submitted by
- tj.boast
- Observations date
- Monday, December 30, 2019
- Location
- 49.738943° N 118.921837° 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?
- Point observation
- Elevation above sea level
- 1,900m
- Elevation band
- Below treeline
- Snowpack depth
- 150cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Snowpack test result
- Moderate
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Sudden (`pop` or `drop`)
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 100cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Facets
Comments
A pit located on flat terrain BTL in a sparsely tree meadow showed 5cm of low density storm snow on top of a very weak 1mm crust. Bleow this the snow is well consolidated until we reach the early season crusts. Large facets exist both ontop and below all the crusts right down to ground. Moderate compression test results , sudden collapse , down 100 on facets (3mm) between the November crusts. Repeated 3 times. Surface hoar layers no longer visible in our location. Triggering the persistent slab is our main concern with the snowpack.