Churchill

Dug a profile at 2100m on a North aspect. Below 1850m snowpack is unsupportive with a ski penetration of 40-60cm. Rain crust present at that elevation but thin and unsupportive. Noted Surface Hoar from 1450-1850m. Above 1850m a stiff layer was supportive to my weight, but a second party reported punching through and getting wumph and cracking up to 20m. Ski quality was OK for the first 150m than becoming unsupportive and hard to ski.

* Could not unclick the rainfall rate but no rain during the day.

Dug a profile on a North aspect at upper treeline in an open slope with sparse trees, slope angle: 30°, Height of Snow: 103cm. 30cm of new snow and a hard wind pressed layer sits on top of the Dec 17th layer now mostly faceted. Very easy results on compression test and extended column test on the Dec17th layer now down 30cm. Fractures happened as I was isolating the columns. Results on this layer were planar and the block slide easily when pulled. Also got hard resistant planar results on the Nov16th now down 49cm.

Evidence of Natural cycle from a few days ago. Few size 1 and at least 1 or 2 size 1.5. One ran well into treeline elevation on the North Path around 2030m. Could not see the crown due to reloading so hard to tell the triggers.