Mt Washington AST 2 day 1

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, stormy

Ride Type

denseTrees, mellowSlopes

Stayed Away

alpineSlopes, steepSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

deepPowder, windAffected

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound

Investigated snow pack 1000m -1200m tested all aspect Hs range 0-2.5m. Ski pen 0-50cm. snow surface ranged from pencil rime crust, pencil (solar aspect, windward aspects). Dry snow non wind effect fist easy, wind slab 1 finger easy lots of new snow and wind all day confirmed wind slab activity on wind slab persistent crust SSW. 30-50cms deep, propagating cracks, early cross load. Cornices highly reactive to light loads, beginning to propagate. However after multiple releases, no fully leeward slab release.

Snowpack

Obs Type

point

Site Aspect

E, N, NE, NW, S, SE, SW, W

Ski Penetration

50

Cracking Observed

1

Surface Conditions

newSnow

Test Failure Layer Crystal Types

facets