Crowfoot Glades

Weather

3lliot5tewart · Dec 20, 2020 · West Side 93N

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Weather
windy, cloudy
Ride Type
mellowSlopes, denseTrees, steepSlopes, openTrees
Riding Quality
Good
Snow Conditions
powder

Mainly cloudy with some moderate wind in the morning and flurries in the afternoon. Dug a pit and cut some steeper slopes with no cracks or sluffing. Decided acceptable to ski steeper terrain after our first run.

Snowpack

20-30+ of powder overnight, 160cm snowpack. Progressive compression failure 40cm deep between 8-13 taps (avg. of three tests at a single test pit). No planar failure observed. November raincrust found 130cm deep. Facets below raincrust.