East Col and Blackcomb Glacier
Quick reporthollyebwalker · Nov 24, 2024 · South Coast Inland
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder, windAffected
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -8
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Wind Direction
- SE
- New Snow24 Hours
- 4
- Storm Snow Amount
- 24
- Precipitation Type
- none
Snowpack
- Depth
- 190
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- N
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Foot Penetration
- 25
- Test Failure Depth
- 73
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- other
Test Profile at 2280m on NNW aspect of East col. Snow pack is right side up, with breaks in top 25cm of new storm snow. Notable is a change in density at 72cm down: there is a resistance change from 1 finger to 4 fingers and back to 1 finger below that. CTH27 resistant planar down 72: the layer was 2mm rimed stellars and decomposing fragments.