Castle Mt exploring/observing
Quick reportBen Yeager · Mar 16, 2017 · Northwest Inland
Quick report
- Weather
- windy, warm, cloudy
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- OK
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, wet, hard, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionTemp, avalancheConditionSnow
Went for a walk to explore terrain on Castle Mt. Stiff crust on top of moist snowpack. On the ridge from 1840-2115m has strong SW winds with extreme gusts transporting lots of snow. Test profile dug on an E aspect at 1890m with HS 155cm had a CTH30 SP down 71 on a melt freeze crust. Snowpack was moist all the way to ground, with multiple thin layers of the melt freeze crust. Other groups reported HS up to 260cm on leeward slopes.