Healy Pass
Quick reportcharlieschubert96 · Mar 28, 2025 · Glacier
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, stormy
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes, convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionSnow
Surprisingly fun day out exploring our new snowpack world in Healy pass. HS at the pass was between 190-200cm. All of the summer trail avalanche paths went big in the last few days but not big enough to reach the summer trail. They were all destructive wet avalanches that looked like they could take out a house. Many large crowns across the ramparts as well but couldn’t get a good photo from afar. Biggest takeaway from the day however was a very supportive rain crust above 1900m below the top 10cm of fresh from last night and this morning. Only heard one (massive) whumpf and settlement making our way across the gentle alpine slopes. Nice to not have to wallow in facets for a change!
Snowpack
- Depth
- 195
- Site Aspect
- SE
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 2350
- Ski Penetration
- 10
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Foot Penetration
- 10
- Test Failure Depth
- 120
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Whumpfing Observed
- 1
No result from the CT, but as I pulled on the column afterwards it easily popped off the obvious layer of facets roughly about 120cm down. As the column hit the ground the two rain crusts at the top 25cm of the column also popped. See photo for reference