McDermott/Mercury Basins
Snowpackfraser.grant44 · Jan 9, 2021 · Lizard
Quick report
- Ride Type
- steepSlopes, openTrees, alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder, windAffected
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- NW
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Ski Penetration
- 5
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Sled Penetration
- 15
- Test Failure Depth
- 20
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- stormSnow
Spent 3 days skiing around Tunnel/McDermott basins. Snow was consistently firm powder with only 5-10cm ski penetration. Rode N, NW, W and E aspects with no noted instabilities. Pit at 1950m on a NW slope (35 deg, lee) produced CT17 resistant planar results ~20cm down, suspected buried wind slab. Snow was consistently 1F aside from a very hard melt freeze crust down ~55cm. HS was over 250cm where we dug but is more likely 150-170cm in that area.