Flower Couloir
Quick reportseton.kriese · Apr 4, 2024 · Glacier
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, stormy, windy
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, openTrees, mellowSlopes, steepSlopes
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes
- Snow Conditions
- powder
Flower couloir attempt. Turned around due to very reactive hand shears on the fan.
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NE
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 2400
- Test Initiation
- veryEasy
- Foot Penetration
- 60
- Test Failure Depth
- 23
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- crust
Partway up flower couloir fan did a couple of hand shears which failed during isolation. Failure layer was mix of facets and rounds between 2 weak crusts. Dug a hasty pit and got CTM2(sudden planar) down 23 on the same layer and PST 22/100 end down 23 as well. Bailed after filling in the pit.