Base Building
Quick reportKirill Kokorin · Nov 24, 2023 · Kitimat
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, warm
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder, wet
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionTemp
Good base building. At a lower elevation alpine feature 15 - 25cm moist soft snow on the surface skied well. A supportive base underneath is so far made up of a few crusts and rounds moist to ground - sticking to lower angle and lee features for the best coverage. Suspect higher alpine will be a drier and we still need more data on the structure of the layers up there.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- 0
- Max Temp
- -2
- Min Temp
- 3
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Wind Direction
- NE
- New Snow24 Hours
- 0
- Temperature Trend
- steady
- Precipitation Type
- none
- Precipitation24 Hours
- 0
High pressure ridge building, inhibiting precip, light to mod outflow winds
Snowpack
- Depth
- 109
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- N
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 1330
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Test Failure Depth
- 44
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- other
A ~10cm layer of Polycrystals (3-5mm) down 44cm in the midpack likely formed from the diurnal cycles we've been monitoring around this elevation. On this layer we observed a CT 13 RP. Block was hard to move from all the moisture in the pack. At the base we observed a ~10cm MF/FC layer that is rounding and clumping at this elevation. Keep an eye out on basal instabilities in the higher alpine.