Sunny Quartz Creek
Quick reportbradley.lorriman · Nov 12, 2023 · Sky Pilot
Quick report
- Weather
- sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, openTrees, sunnySlopes
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound
First day on skis. Went for a poke around Quartz creek. A few sledders out and about dodging rocks and logs. I'd say it's still pretty early unless you really know the area, or like replacing your a-arms. Looks like everyone was enjoying the sun and new snow.
Weather
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Wind Direction
- SE
- New Snow24 Hours
- 40
- Storm Start Date
- 2023-11-11
- Storm Snow Amount
- 40
- Temperature Trend
- falling
- Precipitation Type
- none
Snowpack
- Depth
- 85
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- SE
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 2230
- Ski Penetration
- 50
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Cracking Observed
- 1
- Test Failure Depth
- 12
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Whumpfing Observed
- 1
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- crust, facets
Repeatable compression tests produced moderate resistant planner results down 50cms in the new storm snow interface and hard sudden planar results down 65-70cms on faceted crystals above a 2-4cm thick melt freeze crust. The facets and crust layer were our biggest concern. An extended column test produced a fracture across the entire column on this layer at 23 taps (ECTP23). The new snow was fist resistance, below that was four finger followed by a 2-4cm pencil crust and fist facets/depth hoar crystals to the ground. Lots of whumpfing at all elevations and aspects, some were quite loud!