- Submitted by
- gareth.wheats
- Observations date
- Monday, January 6, 2020 at 10:00
- Location
- 49.384060° N 122.940551° 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
- 1,250m
- Elevation band
- Treeline
- Aspect
- E
- Snowpack depth
- 230cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- Yes
- Foot penetration
- 100cm
- Ski penetration
- 30cm
- Snowpack test result
- Easy
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Sudden (`pop` or `drop`)
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 30cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Storm snow
Comments
Skied some small slopes above the marked route. Was setting off small slides on SE aspect slopes with crowns 20-40cm. Multiple other small slabs released on all aspects.
Dug a full profile pit 220cm. High temperature gradient in the first 40cm of snow. 2 layers that produced results at 30cm(CTE 3) and one at 60cm(CTH 8) down. Air temp was hovering around -0.5.
Started raining at 1250 around 1430.
Interesting time to learn on low consequence slopes.
