Bear Face
Quick reportSnow Daisy · Dec 30, 2025 · Retallack
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy
- Ride Type
- cutBlocks
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
Great day for first tour of the season. Snow was amazing above 1150m then less coverage below that.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 144
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NE
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 1398
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Test Failure Depth
- 30
- Site Elevation Band
- btl
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- stormSnow
Consolidated firm snow from ground to 65cm. Sugar snow from 65 to 82cm. Ice crust to 85cm and consolidated firm snow above that to 115cm. Last 29cm was fresh storm snow. Failure of snow storm layer on level 3 shovel test. Rest of column did not fail on any tests.