Taylor Lake
Quick reportjeffmorris16 · Jan 4, 2025 · Lake Louise
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, foggy, sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSound
Beautiful day with fog & clouds clearing & re-emerging. Snowpack 100cm deep. CTM19 @ 70cm in facets. No wind & no signs of wind loading with ~30-40cm of powder at the top of the snowpack. Ski-out from Taylor Lake is in good shape, minimal sharks.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 100
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- N
- Test Fracture
- unevenBreak
- Site Elevation
- 2240
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Test Failure Depth
- 70
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Whumpfing Observed
- 1
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- facets
Dug a pit on a 30 degree slope north aspect near Taylor Lake, below Bell Couloir. 100cm deep. Top ~30-40cm was all nice powder; ~40cm from top was a crusty layer that was up to 10cm thick; below that was mostly facets. Compression test resulted in failure at CTM19, failing 70cm from the top in the facets.