Dance for Snow
Quick reportnorthrockiesfieldteam · Jan 4, 2024 · Tumbler
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy
- Ride Type
- openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- terrible
- Snow Conditions
- powder
We poked into Core Lodge today. Alpine and Tree Line are scoured to rock with deposits of snow just in gullies and depressions. We tried to work our way to the back meadows, on the west side of the riding area, but the 85cm was not enough to cover ground roughness. We decided to not risk an a-arm and kept mostly to compacted trails.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 85
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- N, E
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1548
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Foot Penetration
- 35
- Test Failure Depth
- 40
- Site Elevation Band
- btl
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow, surfaceHoar
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- facets, surfaceHoar
The December surface hoar layers are easy to see but becoming harder to trigger. The layers are now mostly rounding facets with a few rounding surface hoar grains. Melt Freeze crust below approximately 1400m