Rummel Lake

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, warm

Ride Type

cutBlocks, denseTrees, mellowSlopes

Stayed Away

alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, openTrees

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

heavy, powder, wet

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionTemp

Went out in search of dry snow and found it in some tight, north facing glades between 2100 and 2300 meters. Dug a test pit at about 2300 meters and found 170cm height of snow. Bottom 90 cm was depth hoar with a 20cm thick dense (1 finger) slab on top. This was capped by a 10cm thick crust-facet-crust sandwich. A compression test produced a CTM14 non-planar break failure on this facet/crust combo. The overlying slab was 25cm of 4 finger dense snow grading into 15cm of soft dry powder on top.