Kootenay Pass East zone
Snowpackx.medium · Nov 27, 2021 · Kootenay Pass
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, cloudy, stormy
- Ride Type
- openTrees
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
Riding quality was good from 2000 to 1800 and rapidly diminished below. Powder up top, with increasing snow density as elevation was lost.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -1
- Max Temp
- -1
- Min Temp
- -3
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- overcast
- Snowfall Rate
- 1
- Wind Direction
- SW
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- snow
Snow started around 1 pm at s1 and by the time we were on the ski out, it was s2. Arrived to 5 cm of heavy wet snow on the cars. Temperature rising throughout the day. -1.4 at ridge tip (2000m) at 2 pm
Snowpack
- Depth
- 90
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- W
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 2000
- Ski Penetration
- 10
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Foot Penetration
- 30
- Test Failure Depth
- 20
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- stormSnow
Full profile with 2 column tests: 1 mm breakable crust down 10 cm 2-4 mm pencil crust down 35 2-4 mm knife crust down 55 Loose junky snow near ground on alders RP moderate results twice on same layer down 20 cm within storm snow layers.