- Submitted by
- jenhoffman08
- Observations date
- Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 12:37
- Location
- 49.428210° N 57.631700° 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
- 340m
- Elevation band
- Below treeline
- Aspect
- SE
- Snowpack depth
- 85cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- Yes
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Ski penetration
- 10cm
- Snowpack test result
- Very easy
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Sudden (`pop` or `drop`)
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 30cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Crust
- Facets
Comments
I checked a wind loaded slope in a small open area, 35 d slope. Recent storm snow from Friday and Saturday failed easily on a layer of facets above the rain crust that happened Thursday.