Wendy Thompson trip
Snowpackdfgault · Mar 3, 2022 · Duffey
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, cloudy
- Ride Type
- steepSlopes, alpineSlopes
- Stayed Away
- sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionTemp
Excellent snow on N aspects. Ventured onto a S slope in the afternoon and found wet snow. felt a whumpf and some shooting cracks and reversed the skin track back to shaded slopes. A breakable crust is forming below 1700m due to the warm air temps
Weather
- Max Temp
- 5
- Min Temp
- 2
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
Strong solar radiation and warm air temps produced the most pin wheeling I've ever seen on S aspects. Temperature at the hut was 5 degrees on Thursday afternoon, and 2 degrees at 7am on Friday (1820m)
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NW
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 2150
- Ski Penetration
- 20
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Foot Penetration
- 60
- Test Failure Depth
- 50
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- facets
CTM 10 Down 50 on crust/facet combination Snowpack felt right side up in the storm snow and was bonding to the crust, under the crust was a 2cm layer of facets. Snowpack was 320cm+