- Submitted by
- randy
- Observations date
- Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 18:30
- Location
- 55.011728° N 121.559198° 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
- 1,637m
- Elevation band
- Treeline
- Aspect
- NE
- Snowpack depth
- 285cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Foot penetration
- 40cm
- Snowpack test result
- Easy
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Sudden (`pop` or `drop`)
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 27cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Crust
Comments
CTE6down27 SP on crust
27 cm of new snow sitting on sun crust. Beware of wind loading of new snow and warmer temperatures as this snow was fracturing in the easy range.
