Moose lake
Quick reportngsmcgill343 ยท Jan 2, 2026
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, cloudy
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes, convexSlopes
Good skiing, varying snowpack depth, snow pack consisted of a crust facet laminate in the mid pack and depth hoar on the ground. We had a propagating ect on the depth hoar. Snow had been through some warming solar aspects had been pin wheeling a day or so previous, with a temp inversion apparent as snow down load was colder and drier.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 130
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- SW
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1800
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Test Failure Depth
- 105
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- depthHoar
Sw 33degrees 1850ish 6000feet Air temp -2.2 T10 -5.5 Ski pen 20cm Foot pen unkown. 135-110 4 finger 110-92 1f 92-77 1f 77-721f 72-68 pencil 68-65 4f. layers were a crust facet laminate 65-60 pencil 60-25 1f+ 25-0 1f large depth hoar Cth21 d 35 rp Ectp28 down 105 on large depth hoar This was about the fattest snow we encountered alof of the snow pack was between 60cm - 80cm where the crust in mid pack was present and so was the depth hoar.