Gnarnia

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Deep powder

We rode:

• Alpine slopes
• Convex slopes
• Open trees

We stayed away from:

• Convex slopes
• Sunny slopes

The day was:

• Cold
• Sunny

Beautiful day in Gnarnia via tracked quad to end of Beta Lake Road. There was one other group of 2 out who put a great skin track in to the first area of Gnarnia trees.

We rode said treed run, then skinned to the col/ridge below Little Knuckle and skied back to the bottom of Gnarnia. We observed no signs of instability during the day. It was cold and dry.

We dug a 140cm pit at the MIN location, N aspect, 35* slope. Pre storm crust 75cm down. Photo of crystals from that layer. Snow depth 270(!) at that location.

CTH25 RP @ 46cm down, small mid storm crust layer.

CTH28 RP @ 75cm down

We replicated these results in a second column, CTH23 RP @ 46cm down, CTH25 @ 75cm down.

Snow temp was -15C 10cm down and -6C 75cm down.