The Snow Shall Be Shallow and You Shall Like It
Quick reportIanMach10 · Nov 16, 2025 · East Side 93N
Quick report
- Weather
- warm
- Ride Type
- sunnySlopes, mellowSlopes, alpineSlopes, denseTrees
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes, convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionTemp
Skiied on the lower slopes of Observation Sub Peak today. Good supportive snow below 2200m, made the tree-bashing the way up a little less bad. HS increased gradually to avg 60cms above treeline, then decreased as we approached steeper and more wind-affected slopes. Stopped climbing at 2520m and decided to ski. Pit digging at this time resulted in CTE9 down 12 SP, reacting in the RGxf interface under what is likely Nov 13 storm snow. Further down, a decomposing MFCR can be found (down 35), but this did not produce test results. Pit was dug on a smooth talus slope. After a wonderfully powdery lap 1 with only one rock to be found by… not me, temperature significantly increased and much rollerballing began. After glomping through much heavier snow on our second ascent (air temp 1.2C @1245 @2450m), we skiied still good and supportive snow back to the car.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 51
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- W
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 2520
- Ski Penetration
- 15
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Foot Penetration
- 45
- Test Failure Depth
- 12
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- variable
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- other
RGxf