- Submitted by
- AitorA
- Observations date
- Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 01:26
- Location
- 50.051930° N 122.915240° 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?
- Point observation
- Elevation above sea level
- 1,848m
- Elevation band
- Alpine
- Treeline
- Aspect
- W
- Snowpack depth
- 230cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Foot penetration
- 75cm
- Ski penetration
- 30cm
- Snowpack test result
- Moderate
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Uneven break
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 185cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Variable
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Storm snow
Comments
Quick snow profile in Lesser Flute area. 25 degree slope, shelter from the SE winds and right at the end of the treeline. Snowpack was 230cm, and there's two mayor layers basically. First one is from the last storm cycle and goes from surface down to 85cm. The rain crust from mid November lays down from 85cm to the ground. Did one compression test with CTM 15 BRK down at 184cm. After the test I easily pulled the snow block with RP down to 100cm.