Hidden Lake
Snowpackmparkes · Dec 12, 2020 · Duffey
Quick report
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, openTrees, alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- terrible
- Snow Conditions
- hard, crusty
Spent Friday night at Hidden Lake and attempted to ski unnamed peak to north on Saturday. FSR access was easy. From end FSR to Hidden Lake is thin but skiable. Snow below 2100m is a few cm of fresh over breakable crust and makes for terrible skiing. Good snow from 2100 to 2300m. Above this there was a hard icy layer that skis did not penetrate about 10cm down, making for difficult skinning (ski crampons would have been great). The ridge didn't have enough snow to skin, yet too much to easily boot pack, with lots of just-covered boulders.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 105
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- S
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 1960
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Test Failure Depth
- 11
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- crust
Plateau above Hidden Lake. Thin crusts at 25 & 27 up, 85 up, thicker crusts at 89-90, 92-96 up. Upper two had facets below them and top one fractured easily in CT (5 at top of top crust, 6 at bottom of top crust). No propagation in ECT on this, but easily cracked whilst digging. Also CTM 20 down 23cm on layer not visible. No result on lowest crusts, though they did fracture easily when collapsing the column after testing, resulting in the whole snowpack above moving as one block. Snowpack above 2100m didn't have this top crust and felt much more stable, though we didn't dig a pit.