- Submitted by
- ueli
- Observations date
- Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 01:26
- Location
- 49.457700° N 117.193570° 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
- 2,085m
- Elevation band
- Treeline
- Aspect
- N
- Snowpack depth
- 195cm
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Snowpack test result
- Very easy
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Sudden (`pop` or `drop`)
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Crust
- Facets
- Storm snow
Comments
Moderate wind from SE on ridge with considerable snow transport. Windslab proved to be very touchy in compression test. However we did not get any reaction on any of the lower layers.