Mid 20s, very light breeze, partly cloudy
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Eddies up track
Up track is looker’s right of the standard up track. Pit is along track route at 1580 ft.
Weather
Snow surface
90 cm of storm snow
Snowpack
1580 ft elevation, 320º aspect, 30º slope
170 cm total depth.
90 cm of storm snow. Right side up, from 4 fingers to fist soft.
12 cm ice crust.
Crystals above and below the ice crust looked like rounds, but subtle facets are hard for me to identify.
Very wet snow below the ice crust!
ECTX
After the ECT test, we got the storm snow to slide on the ice crust by stepping on the snow above the ECT column (like a mini Rutschblock).