Armchair
Quick reportjordan.polischuk · Dec 8, 2024 · Cariboos
Quick report
- Weather
- cold, sunny
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, powder, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSound
Scouting around armchair, below 1800m coverage is not great and travel through dense trees is difficult. Above 1800m coverage improves and snow quality and depth goes up. On NE leeward slopes, shooting cracks and whumpfs observed at 1900m traveling up a convexity on a ridge.
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- E, N
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 1900
- Ski Penetration
- 10
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Cracking Observed
- 1
- Test Failure Depth
- 37
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Whumpfing Observed
- 1
After observing shooting cracks and whumpf, we dug a quick pit and did a column test. CTE2 down 40 RP.