Hourglass
Quick reportT.Mac · Jan 1, 2025 · Little Yoho
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, sunny
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, openTrees
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
Quick exploratory hit up the NE shoulder of Cheops to ski Hourglass. Only a few cms on the skin track up but we found a good amount of untracked snow (at least not recently) where we dropped in. Still a little lumpy and tricky lower down where the path narrows. We had great views across the valley and highway with only very light cloud/fog hanging around, until around 11 when it got more cloudy and grey. No wind or wind effect noted, snow was generally light and fluffy up and down.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 180
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- N
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 1850
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Test Failure Depth
- 40
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
Dug an amateur's pit and tried my hand at a compression test (so take it with a grain of salt). Wasn't overly concerned about the route choice given the forecast, but thought it would be a good exercise nonetheless. Info & results: Opening in the trees, may very well have been tree bombed and/or skied in the past N aspect, 1850 m, ~35° slope 180 cm snow depth CTH 27 - resistant planar failure down 40 cm No obvious weak layer (i.e., not an obvious/thick crust or big surface hoar layer), so maybe just a density change in the previous week's storm snow?