Trout River Gultch

The Trout River corridor showed evidence of strong West winds associated with this past Sunday/Monday‘s storm. Stripped and icy or heavily loaded depending on the feature/aspect. East facing lee features/gullies were heavily loaded, with up to 2m+ new snow, at lower elevations in the valley. New snow was pretty packed in, 20cm boot penetration in Andy’s Baffin’s. A Compression Test produced a failure down 40cm, on top of the first crust, sudden planar. In our extended column test, it propagated, early from the shoulder. We repeated the test a number of times in the same area, with no other results. No new avalanches observed. Some new cornice growth noted.