Rolston Creek
Quick reportJaret Foster · Feb 8, 2024 · Chic-Choc Mountains
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy
- Riding Quality
- terrible
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, hard
Conditions are hard and one of the following: icy, styrofoamy, or rocks. Travelled 750m to 1100m and snow levels varied from 0cm to 1m max. Generally 20-60cm with stumps and logs visible across slopes. More snow with elevation but hard riding conditions likely exist to summit. Potentially a skiff of fresh at tree line (1cm)
Weather
- Max Temp
- 1
- Min Temp
- -7
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- overcast
- Wind Direction
- N
- Temperature Trend
- steady
- Precipitation Type
- snow
Overcast and cool all day. Extremely light precip starting around noon. Will not accumulate to anything. Silversands/Calazone saw <1cm graupel / snow accumulate overnight.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 83
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- E
- Site Elevation
- 1103
- Ski Penetration
- 0
- Test Initiation
- none
- Foot Penetration
- 0
- Site Elevation Band
- btl
- Surface Conditions
- crust
Snowpack is well consolidated and well bridged. One ice layer (I) at 57-55cm. Surrounded by MF layers of varied hand hardness (P to K-) on either side. At the bottom, 34-0cm moist MFs 1F. T air -3.8C T 10 -4.3C ECTX CTN