Cowboy Ridge
Snowpackandrewnporritt · Dec 5, 2016 · Spearhead
Quick report
- Weather
- sunny, cold
- Ride Type
- convexSlopes, openTrees, mellowSlopes, alpineSlopes, sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder, windAffected, crusty
Snowpack
- Depth
- 190
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- W
- Test Fracture
- unevenBreak
- Site Elevation
- 1950
- Ski Penetration
- 20
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Test Failure Depth
- 42
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- variable
We did a shovel compression test and observed some results. Excuse my poor reporting notation. CT 4 - moderately consolidated wind slab 10cm down CT 12 - consolidated slab reaction 40cm down (not quite clean shear but very close) CT 15 - above shear further develops to clean shear CT 18 - moderately consolidate reaction 25cm down (above the reaction observed at CT 12) There was then yet another reaction a few centimeter deeper. Can't remember the exact strike but CT 20+