Good skiing near town, fragile snowpack

Quick report

Steve 'Reidles' Reid · Mar 21, 2018 · Vancouver Island

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Quick report

Weather
stormy
Ride Type
mellowSlopes, denseTrees, steepSlopes, openTrees
Riding Quality
Good
Snow Conditions
powder
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSound

Good ski quality. Difficult skinning, with ski penetration of up to 60cm in places. Easily able to ski cut sz1 windslab/stormslab on lee features at treeline, small slides propagating but barely running on features tested. Snowpit attached. Did two compression tests which saw easy failures at the base of the snowpack. Widespread whumpfing.

Snowpack

Faceted crystals at base of snowpack may include depth hoar (no crystal screen or loupe with me ;-) )