Sunset
Quick reportngsmcgill343 · Dec 20, 2025 · Maligne
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab
Picture is not what we skied just comparable to another min with a photo of the same slope on Dec 14th. Heard 3x expected Natural avalanches on our walk up the valley, couldn't see debris, really nice snow sitting on top of a supportive crust 30-50cm down. Small test slopes were unreactive 110HS at 2200M
Snowpack
- Depth
- 110
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- NE
- Site Elevation
- 2200
- Ski Penetration
- 25
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Foot Penetration
- 85
- Test Failure Depth
- 50
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- facets
32 degrees NE 2200m Air -9.5 T10 -8.7 Ski pen 20 Fp 85 Sky: Overcast Hs 110 Rough hand hardness 110-100cm Fist df 100-55cm 4f df 55-50cm 1f facets 0.5-1mm this was the crust about 5cm thick. (mostly small square grains some melt forms in there too) 50-20cm 4f facets 2mm 20 - 0 Fist 3-4mm depth hoar Test results Ectn 24 down 50 on 0.5-1 Facet