East Cheops/Hourglass
Quick reportbenjamin.yeager · Dec 11, 2024 · Little Yoho
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, cloudy
- Ride Type
- denseTrees
- Stayed Away
- openTrees, alpineSlopes, convexSlopes
- Snow Conditions
- powder
Went for an adventure on the East slopes of Cheops to check things out. Still pretty bushy up there but nice skiing in the trees. Some evidence of avalanche activity to size 2 from last weekends storms. The Cheops East path had debris in it and it looked like the cornices may have recently failed. We dug a pit at 2000 m and found the surface hoar layer down 55 cms and it was producing hard sudden planer results (see snowpack tab for nerdy details). The surface hoar looked rhymed and wasn’t well preserved but it was there! Cloudy, warm and not much for wind. A light snowfall mid day.
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- E
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1975
- Ski Penetration
- 15
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Foot Penetration
- 40
- Test Failure Depth
- 55
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- surfaceHoar
CTM 12 RP (x2) down 35, density change within the storm snow CTH 22 SP (x2) down 55 on surface hoar. SH was rhymed and appeared to be breaking down, mixed with DFs.