- Submitted by
- johngrahamkelly
- Observations date
- Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 20:00
- Location
- 50.040248° N 122.921320° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-122.92131986490776,50.0402484030908,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Flute Backside Musical Bumps")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Is this a point observation or a summary of your day?
- Point observation
- Elevation above sea level
- 2,000m
- Elevation band
- Alpine
- Aspect
- NE
- Snowpack depth
- 185cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- Yes
- Snowpack test result
- Very easy
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Sudden (`pop` or `drop`)
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 20cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Crust
- Facets
- Storm snow
Comments
Storm slab down 20cm produced sudden collapse on CTE2.
Upon lifting the fractured storm slab to inspect the underside, both sections above the two mid snowpack crusts produced sudden collapses. Likely caused by a simultaneous release on CTE2.
Did not record crust depths unfortunately.
