- Submitted by
- jal.roulette
- Observations date
- Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 21:45
- Location
- 50.360917° N 122.445096° 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
- 1,835m
- Elevation band
- Treeline
- Aspect
- N
- Snowpack depth
- 200cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- Yes
- Foot penetration
- 50cm
- Ski penetration
- 20cm
- Snowpack test result
- Easy
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Resistant
- Surface conditions
- New snow
Comments
1835m, N aspect, 17 degree slope angle, HS 210cm, overcast and snowing, light breeze with gusts up to 25-40 km/h from the south, air temp -4c,
snow temp -7
CTE3(RP)down 5cm(wind slab)
CTE8(RP) down 25cm
CTM17(RP) down 52cm
CTH22(BRK) down 120cm(crust)
Didn’t have time to inspect what the test results slid on a combination of wind slabs, surface hoar, crusts I would assume. Ridge tops had wind slabs developing,upper 50cm portion of snowpack was low density snow(fist-4F). A thick crust about 120cm down in the snowpack. Rode dense trees, set off a size .5 in a steep/open portion of the trees about 25cm deep.