Lesser Flute snow profile
SnowpackAitorA · Dec 1, 2016 · Spearhead
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -3
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedCalm
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- snow
Snowpack
- Depth
- 230
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- W
- Test Fracture
- unevenBreak
- Site Elevation
- 1848
- Ski Penetration
- 30
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Foot Penetration
- 75
- Test Failure Depth
- 185
- Site Elevation Band
- alp, tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow, variable
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- stormSnow
Quick snow profile in Lesser Flute area. 25 degree slope, shelter from the SE winds and right at the end of the treeline. Snowpack was 230cm, and there's two mayor layers basically. First one is from the last storm cycle and goes from surface down to 85cm. The rain crust from mid November lays down from 85cm to the ground. Did one compression test with CTM 15 BRK down at 184cm. After the test I easily pulled the snow block with RP down to 100cm.