no whumphing observed, oddly.
Observation: Summit
Location: Mabitoba
Nice day skiing the main face of Manitoba.
Observer Comments
Weather
Thick valley fog all day. Cold, clear, and calm above 2,100ft
Snow surface
Fresh surface hoar from about 2,000ft and up. Largest hoar feathers were in the 2,100 - 2,700 ft band, smaller hoar frost feathers from 2,700 - 3,600. Hoar frost in the skin track used on Saturday.
Snowpack
Snow coverage is very good (35-65 cm total? didn't measure) at 1,200ft - 1,500ft but thins out steadily once above treeline. Skinning past the yurts with such deep snow gave us a lot of hope. But, by ~3,100ft when we looked for a place to dig a pit we probed across the ski face and found 25-40cm of loose powder over ground. No sign of a base snowpack to cover rocks.
Surface hoar frost on every aspect above 2,000ft
above about 2,800ft there is no base to the snow pack. Many, many P-tex offerings were made to the snow sharks
Thick valley fog all day below 2,100ft, but beautiful sunshine and decent skiing above.