Ghost Ridge
Snowpackohmyguide · Dec 10, 2020 · Central Selkirk
Quick report
- Weather
- sunny
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- hard
Chose conservative terrain due to recent storm over SH and crust. Did not observe any signs of instability. Conditions were 5cm of low density snow over a very firm wind pressed surface producing sloughing in steep terrain and made for difficult up tracking when steep.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 205
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NE
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 2170
- Ski Penetration
- 5
- Test Initiation
- hard
- Foot Penetration
- 15
- Test Failure Depth
- 23
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- surfaceHoar
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- stormSnow
Did not observe any buried surface hoar at this location although it was present on the surface.