Mt. Strachan Profile
Quick reportSteveSkis123 · Jan 16, 2024 · North Shore
Quick report
- Weather
- cold, sunny
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, openTrees, sunnySlopes
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, powder, windAffected
Beautiful day on Mt. Strachan. Dug above Aussie gully looking to check out interface between snow deposited by Northerly outflow winds and last weeks storm snow. CTE6 down 15cm SC, CTM13 down 40cm, but didn't observe any significant cracking or slabs developing.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 145
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- SE
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1420
- Ski Penetration
- 15
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Foot Penetration
- 40
- Test Failure Depth
- 15
- Site Elevation Band
- btl
- Surface Conditions
- variable
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- crust
Well consolidated lower snow pack with poorly bonded wind deposited snow on top of recent storm snow that has stayed dry and low density. Did not see any evidence of buried surface hoar during compression test.