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Quick reportAvCan Northwest · Mar 21, 2025 · Microwave-Sinclair
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, sunny
- Ride Type
- openTrees
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder, windAffected
Today at the Microwave we observed around 15cm of new snow lightly blown in over old tracks. We did not observe any recent natural or rider triggered avalanches, but we did find buried surface hoar from early-March down 40cm. Predicting the tipping point with layers like this can be tricky. Small changes in our surface snow (more settlement, additional snow, wind effect, solar input) have the potential to build a slab over this weak layer, potentially making it more reactive.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 185
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- N
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1600
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Test Failure Depth
- 40
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- surfaceHoar
Surface hoar was 3-5mm. Notably, the mid-February persistent layer presented as a 20cm thick layer of soft facets down 90 cm.