- Submitted by
- jamesyearous
- Observations date
- Monday, February 16, 2026 at 20:00
- Location
- 49.013729° N 114.059652° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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- Is this a point observation or a summary of your day?
- Summary
- Elevation above sea level
- 2,100m
- Elevation band
- Treeline
- Aspect
- E
- Did you observe whumpfing?
- No
- Did you observe cracking?
- No
- Foot penetration
- 15cm
- Ski penetration
- 10cm
- Snowpack test result
- Hard
- Snowpack test fracture character
- Resistant
- Snowpack test failure depth
- 60cm
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Snowpack test failure layer crystal type
- Facets
Comments
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.
