Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Standard West Ridge route
Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Recent cornice fall along Magnum's South face and a recent glide avalanche in Lynx Creek drainage
Clear
Inversion -2F at road increasing to around 20F at ridge top
calm winds
No new precip
thin candy shell crust to around 1000'
surface hoar varied in size, 1cm valley bottom becoming 2-3mm to ridge tops.
*between 2700'-3000' surface hoar was tiny ~1mm
Pit#1 - 2000', HS=135cm, N aspect, 24* slope - snow was right side up and very stable in this location. We found a MF crust on the ground that was moist and bonded to the ground with P-hard rounding grains above. Tests:CTN
Pit#2 - 2300', HS=82cm, S aspect, 25* slope - we probed throughout this location and could feel crust/facet/crust sandwich in the bottom 20-40cm of the snowpack. We intentionally dug in a shallow area to test this structure with a thinner slab on top. The height of snow varied from 270cm to 60cm, and averaged around 175cm. Tests: CT24, ECTX, ECTP19 and failed 50cm below surface just below a 1cm MF crust on 1mm rounding facets. See pit photo for more info.
At 1600' HS ~ 100cm
At 2700' HS ~ 160cm