Observation: Hatcher Pass

Location: 3000-4500' all aspects

Date:
Observer:
nancy pfeiffer Professional
Route & General Observations

Alaska Avalanche School had 20 observers testing in HP this past weekend.

Weather & Snow Characteristics
Please provide details to help us determine the weather and snowpack during the time this observation took place.
Weather

partly cloudy
stabalizing weather for the snowpack

Snow surface

variable!

Snowpack

While we found many areas (primarily predominatly windward slopes with small pockets of sideloaded slabs) with pencile hard windslab over fist hard facets, all but one of our numerous tests showed no reactivity. Areas of generally thicker snowpack were without this poor structure.