4 Days at 5 Mile
SnowpackCedar Jasiuk · Mar 1, 2021 · Chilkat Pass
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, wet
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, steepSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound
This is 4 MIN's compressed into 1. All in the 5 mile creek area. West aspect. Road level to 820m Starting Friday Feb 26th ending Monday March 1st. Feb 26th Riding Quality:Good -4c Clear skies and moderate wind. 20cm of fresh snow on surface. We skied into the alpine to 820m found wind affect. Had good skiing in trees Feb 27th Riding Quality:Good -3c Overcast no wind. Stayed low and skied trees Feb 28th Riding Quality: Amazing -2c 15cms overnight and snowing @ a rate of 2cm/hr through the day -Light S wind March 1st Riding Quality: Amazingest -2c 32cm storm total @ 278m ASL Snowed all day @ rate of 1cm/hr Significant wind transport in the alpine starting around 1400.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 355
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- W
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 555
- Ski Penetration
- 25
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Foot Penetration
- 80
- Cracking Observed
- 1
- Test Failure Depth
- 20
- Site Elevation Band
- btl
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Whumpfing Observed
- 1
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- surfaceHoar, facets
This pit was dug on 02/26/21 Looking at the Haines Avalanche Center forecast we went out looking for buried surface hoar that they were talking about. We heard whumpfing in open meadows and when we dug our pit we found it buried 20cms down. It failed at CT (12) (RP). Also found 2 melt freeze crusts at 40cm below surface and 80cms below surface. 80cm deep melt freeze failed at CT (18) (RP) We set a small slide off on a convexity in steeper terrain. All this combined was enough to keep us off the steeper slopes for the 4 days. Starting snowing Sunday at 0300 and by monday at 1700 the storm total was 32cm @ road level. Probing around in multiple locations prior to the storm showed an average HS @ 330cm