Deeep in the trees
Quick reportnorthrockiesfieldteam · Dec 27, 2024 · Chic-Choc Mountains
Quick report
- Weather
- foggy
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
With wind slabs in exposed terrain and generally foggy conditions, we decided to ride in sheltered trees. Here we found powder over a well-consolidated snowpack.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -4
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- fog
- Snowfall Rate
- 1
- Wind Direction
- SW
- New Snow24 Hours
- 10
- Temperature Trend
- steady
- Precipitation Type
- snow
Snowing all day
Snowpack
- Depth
- 200
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- N
- Site Elevation
- 1660
- Test Initiation
- none
- Foot Penetration
- 30
- Sled Penetration
- 30
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
No results on ECT, and CT No results on DT on the Dec 6th. Dec 6th down 80cm. Powder, amount of soft new snow, improves above 1500m