Farm Trail
Quick reportbpatch · Jan 17, 2021 · McGregor
Quick report
- Weather
- wet, windy, warm
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, denseTrees
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes, convexSlopes, openTrees
- Riding Quality
- OK
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, wet
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionTemp, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab
Warm and wet day at the Farm. Around 0-2 degrees all day, mix of rain and wet snow. Saw several small (size 0.5) natural slides on steep slopes throughout the trees. Hand shear test pulled off a slab of the new storm snow with almost no effort. Dug a pit and compression test failed on the first tap from the wrist (non-planar break). The storm snow slid on a crust layer about 30cm down, but no obvious faceting/surface hoar around this crust layer. We kept to mellow slopes in the trees.