Corbin

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, sunny, warm

Ride Type

openTrees, mellowSlopes

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, sunnySlopes

Riding Quality

amazing

Snow Conditions

deepPowder, powder, crusty

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound

At 1500m snow was 30cm powder over hard crust. Temp was warm (-2) and it was very sunny. Up higher around 1600m snow got deeper but crust was still present below. We dug a test pit at 2045m on a protected south facing slope, temp -5, cloudy, no wind snow depth was 235cm. Column test result 25, failure at 120cm on what I can only assume used to be a hoar frost layer (now it looks like facets). At the top of our run some of us stomped hard on a slope and were able to get a large 50mx100m area to whoomf. This obviously freaked us out and we retreated via conservative line to mellower slopes. We saw some signs of small point release sluffs on steep south facing slopes. Skiing was amazing, super powdery!

Weather

Avg Temp

-4

Max Temp

-2

Min Temp

-12

Wind Speed

windSpeedCalm

Blowing Snow

none

Sky Condition

scatteredClouds

New Snow24 Hours

30

Temperature Trend

rising

Precipitation Type

none

Snowpack

Depth

235

Obs Type

summary

Site Aspect

SE, S

Test Fracture

sudden

Site Elevation

2000

Ski Penetration

30

Test Initiation

moderate

Foot Penetration

50

Test Failure Depth

120

Site Elevation Band

btl, tln

Surface Conditions

newSnow, variable

Whumpfing Observed

1

Test Failure Layer Crystal Types

facets