Hollyburn Trees
Snowpacksalmon.sully · Jan 3, 2022 · North Shore
Quick report
- Weather
- stormy
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow
80 cm of storm snow, 25 cm from the previous night made for spicy but fun ski conditions.
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- point
- Test Fracture
- unevenBreak
- Site Elevation
- 1250
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- stormSnow
Upper snowpack is a layer cake of storm snow and variable wind layers that were happy to move on CTE2-8. Down 80 cm, there was non-planar break on CTM-7 (the start of the current storm?). Below 100 cm were sugary facets. HS 300 cm.