Gnarnia

Quick report

Weather

cold, sunny

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, openTrees, convexSlopes

Stayed Away

sunnySlopes, convexSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

deepPowder

Beautiful day in Gnarnia via tracked quad to end of Beta Lake Road. There was one other group of 2 out who put a great skin track in to the first area of Gnarnia trees. We rode said treed run, then skinned to the col/ridge below Little Knuckle and skied back to the bottom of Gnarnia. We observed no signs of instability during the day. It was cold and dry. We dug a 140cm pit at the MIN location, N aspect, 35* slope. Pre storm crust 75cm down. Photo of crystals from that layer. Snow depth 270(!) at that location. CTH25 RP @ 46cm down, small mid storm crust layer. CTH28 RP @ 75cm down We replicated these results in a second column, CTH23 RP @ 46cm down, CTH25 @ 75cm down. Snow temp was -15C 10cm down and -6C 75cm down.