Log cabin

Quick report

Weather

warm, cloudy

Ride Type

openTrees, mellowSlopes

Stayed Away

alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

good

We stayed at and below tree line as the light was flat and there was more wind and wind affected snow as we got above trees. The snow in the area we skied between 1000 &1100m was excellent for skiing.

Weather

Avg Temp

0

Wind Speed

windSpeedLight

Sky Condition

overcast

Precipitation Type

none

Snowpack

Depth

2500

Obs Type

point

Site Aspect

E

Site Elevation

1000

Ski Penetration

20

Test Initiation

moderate

Test Failure Depth

10

Site Elevation Band

tln

Surface Conditions

newSnow

We dug a pit at 1000 m E aspect in a small windloaded SE facing feature, and found the first 30 cm of new snow, with easy level 1 penetration, then a 2 cm crust with 2 cm faceted snow under the crust, then 70 cm of hard, consolidated snow under that, level 4 penetration becoming less penetrable the deeper we went. In the column compression test, we found a layer at 10cm in the new snow that collapsed after 10 wrist and 2 elbow taps, then the faceted layer we found earlier collapsed after 6 shoulder taps