Tophat North
Quick reportseantropsa · Mar 31, 2025 · Waterton Lakes
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- hard, powder, wet
South aspects were still shedding ice/rocks off the large clifs just north of the tophat descent.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- 1
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedCalm
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- none
Snowpack
- Depth
- 280
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NE
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 2560
- Ski Penetration
- 8
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Foot Penetration
- 30
- Test Failure Depth
- 46
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- facets
Somewhat complicated snow structure on northerly aspects. Biggest concern was sluffing of new snow up high, which tended to be loose and long running. Below 1900m later in the day and on more easterly aspects wet slabs were more apparent. at valley bottoms by 15:00 the snowpack was completely isohermal with little structure