- Submitted by
- mikeharrhy
- Observations date
- Monday, December 5, 2016 at 02:34
- Location
- 49.627310° N 121.079430° 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 band
- Treeline
- Aspect
- E
- NE
- Snowpack depth
- 130cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Foot penetration
- 50cm
- Ski penetration
- 20cm
- Snowpack test result
- Easy
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Resistant
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 30cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Storm snow
Comments
A 25cm layer new of snow from Saturday night's storm was generally consistent from the trailhead to the peak, and it was still snowing heavily as we started the ascent.Texture: loose and soft powder.
In two compression tests on the mellow ridge near the summit, we observed easy failure at the union between the storm snow and the existing snowpack at a depth of ~30cm from the surface.