Micro wind slabs
BB skiing in the past few days. Pretty impressive single-storm coverage. Skied from the top of the nose down to the base on Wednesday. Spotted a few micro wind slabs that had peeled during the storm but nothing large.
BB skiing in the past few days. Pretty impressive single-storm coverage. Skied from the top of the nose down to the base on Wednesday. Spotted a few micro wind slabs that had peeled during the storm but nothing large.
From obs: "Skied Hyalite Peak today and found a wind slab ~10cm deep. Ski cut a small cornice below the main face and broke a small slide that carried ~20’ with little energy with a ~25’ wide crown" Photo: C. Crowe
~72 cm depth
ECTN13 @ 45cm
ECTP17 @ 30cm
Location:
East Aspect
45.32868, -111.38167
12T 0470091E 5019534N
9311 ft
Essentially the same results as were shared in the forecast this morning.
Skied Hyalite Peak today and found a wind slab ~10cm deep. Ski cut a small cornice below the main face and broke a small slide that carried ~20’ with little energy with a ~25’ wide crown
Looks like this could be a problem when buried.
While on a tour today out in Republic Creek, we decided to skin a forested W aspect to gain woody ridge. As we started to near the alpine, we dug a pit on a N aspect at 9900ft and in return got a ectp24 at 30cm in our test. Snowpack in the area was roughly 110cm. The snowpack failed on a buried crust layer that has not bonded to the new snowfall.
ECTX on our snow pit on a shaded, west-facing aspect but sun has created a thin crust as well as some pretty large facets on the surface. Looked like wind had collapsed most of them but could cause problems after next storm