Mt. Allan Brooks

Quick report

Weather

sunny

Ride Type

denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes

Stayed Away

convexSlopes, sunnySlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

crusty, powder

Went out for a day of training which surprised us with great turns. Snow depth is still quite shallow in the trees as we were hitting a rain crust for 3/4 of the way to the summit. But the top was really good! We saw zero signs of avalanche and even tested some north facing steep features with zero movement. We did companion rescue review around 1100m and there wasn't enough snow to bury transceivers more then .7m deep We dug a quick pit on a north aspect at 1395m for training purpose. We had a height of 170cm, the top 40 cm were fresh snow sitting on a rain crust. Below that crust was a good bit of consolidated snow about 1 finger firm sitting on (what i assume) is early season crusts about 114cm down. Above 1395m a couple quick hand shear tests had the 40cm of freshy stuff slide with resistance. Was worth the day out!

Weather

Avg Temp

-1

Wind Speed

windSpeedCalm

Blowing Snow

none

Sky Condition

brokenClouds

Temperature Trend

steady

Precipitation Type

none

Snowpack

Depth

170

Obs Type

point

Site Aspect

NW

Test Fracture

resistant

Site Elevation

1392

Test Initiation

hard

Test Failure Depth

43

Site Elevation Band

tln

hand shears consistently failed on top of a rain crust and a Rutschblock test failed at RB6 with 2 non propagating failures in the top 20cm of new snow