Beauty post storm day - Likely
Snowpackfbr · Feb 27, 2021 · Quesnel
Quick report
- Weather
- sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder, powder
Good day to make use of SW slopes and the trees below before they get hammered by the winds. Great ski quality, ski cut a few test slops with no results...which didn't instil complete complacency.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -11
- Max Temp
- -8
- Min Temp
- -14
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- scatteredClouds
- Snowfall Rate
- 1
- Wind Direction
- SW
- New Snow24 Hours
- 25
- Storm Start Date
- 2021-02-26
- Storm Snow Amount
- 25
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- snow
- Precipitation24 Hours
- 0
Few light flurries throughout the day - mainly localized weather.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 140
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- SW
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1833
- Test Initiation
- easy
- Foot Penetration
- 42
- Test Failure Depth
- 12
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- variable
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- stormSnow
Being a south slope and knowing the area from previous observations. It gets a fair bit of wind effect. Lower in the snowpack there is a fair bit of faceting from the cold snap. The bottom of the profile (40cm - 70cm) was completely faceted. CTE9 down 12 SC *CTH3 down 95 BRK - column seemed unstable, further investigation showed back not cut straight* CTH9 down 50 BRK Snow dork profile attached.