A Pleasant Surprise on Forum

Observed Feb 16, 2026, 12:00 p.m. PST · South Rockies

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Snowpack report

Comment
We expected some dust on crust and horrendous conditions but were pleasantly surprised by a nice new layer of powder 15-20cm thick, 25cm in protected wind loaded areas. This sat upon various bombproof melt-freeze crusts of January. This crust covered layers of various hardness but ultimately sat on a 10-15cm layer of facets. This whole structure sat on another hard crust about 60cm down. A CT found the top crust to be unreactive but yielded hard results (21) on the lower crust 60cm down. Failure was a bit resistant but planar. Overall, skiing conditions were quite good but we felt the crust at spots. I gave the day a 7.5/10.
Obs type
Summary
Site aspect
E
Test fracture
Resistant
Site elevation
2100
Ski penetration
10
Test initiation
Hard
Foot penetration
15
Cracking observed
No
Test failure depth
60
Site elevation band
Tln
Surface conditions
New snow
Whumpfing observed
No
Test failure layer crystal types
Facets