Matthew Creek
Quick reportnpin · Jan 24, 2025 · St. Mary
Quick report
- Weather
- cold, sunny
- Ride Type
- openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder, windAffected
Skiing in Matthew Creek area on Jan 24, we found a mix of faceted pow and wind affected snow. Average height of snow in the area was ~140cm. Wind exposed areas were scoured of new snow from prevailing SW winds. We skied North through East aspects.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -8
- Min Temp
- -19
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- fewClouds
- Wind Direction
- SW
- Precipitation Type
- none
-19C on car thermometer at 0900, and -8C at 1700.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 150
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NE
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 1940
- Ski Penetration
- 20
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Test Failure Depth
- 5
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- variable
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- stormSnow, surfaceHoar
Testing the soft upper layers, we had an easy result in a shovel tilt test at 5cm, which appeared to fail on preserved Stellars. There is also an easily identifiable layer of Surface Hoar down ~20cm, but no results in tests. A relatively hard layer down 45cm was also easy to identify, but no definitive results (one planar result in compression test, but this was likely influenced by a rock present at the bottom of the column).