Red Heather after a Storm
Quick reportmichael.merrin33 · Dec 2, 2023 · Garibaldi
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound
Beautiful day but considering recent storm we didn't do much skiing. Kept it to very mellow slopes and mostly refreshed AST skills. Compression tests repeatedly failed at E4 at 35cm. Underlying snowpack seemed relatively stable with a dense layer at 50cm.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 95
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NW
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Test Initiation
- veryEasy
- Cracking Observed
- 1
- Test Failure Depth
- 35
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Whumpfing Observed
- 1
Sudden resistant fracture on a 25 degree slope at NNW aspect. Lower layers seem consolidated with 1 isolated M12 failure out of 3 tests.