Ravens

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, windy

Stayed Away

convexSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder

Snowpack

Depth

270

Obs Type

point

Site Aspect

SW

Test Fracture

resistant

Site Elevation

1600

Ski Penetration

10

Test Initiation

moderate

Foot Penetration

30

Test Failure Depth

20

Site Elevation Band

tln

Surface Conditions

newSnow

Test Failure Layer Crystal Types

crust

Dug a pit on the edge of the trees near the Ravens, pit dug until the consolidation of the snowpack made efforts difficult. Medium failure’s occurred in the recent storm layer, 10-20cm. Failures were loose and did not seem to propagate easily. After removal of the loose snow, hard failures occurred between 20-30cm which were more sudden. extra hard (about as hard as we could muster) failure at 150 at a buried crust layer. snowpack was fist to 4finger hard from 150-270.