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- grant
- Observations date
- Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at 18:51
- Location
- 51.434300° N 116.462560° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
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Information
- Is this a point observation or a summary of your day?
- Point observation
- Elevation above sea level
- 2,400m
- Elevation band
- Alpine
- Aspect
- N
- Snowpack depth
- 180cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Foot penetration
- 40cm
- Snowpack test result
- None
- Surface conditions
- New snow
Comments
Profile at 2400 m on Mt Field snows a deep and well settled snowpack. There is an old surface hoar layer near the ground (October?), but this layer is very faceted and we could not get a result on any snowpack tests. No deep Nov crust present at this elevation.
