Date of Observation: 02/21/2021
Zone: Northwest Mountains
Location: Axtell skin track & kebler road
Aspect: North, South
Elevation: N 10,400 & S 9,500
Avalanches: none
Snowpack: We skied axtell skin track today…. avy course;chose site to demonstrate the difference between tree bomb influence of PWL’s in snowpack BTL and “open glades” where there is little effect from the canopy.
Pit #1: @10,400 due N @ 360* in a 20mx20m opening in the tight mature forest:
2 x ECTP (22 & 28) SC (informal, cleared off the top 25cm of F fluff b/c HS is 145cm) failed 25cm above the ground/120cm down on 4-5mm FC.
Slab is 4F & 1F+
Pit #2 5m away from pit #1: ECTX (presumably heavily influenced by the canopy & tree bombed out, as HS was 95cm and ~1.5m from 3 mature spruce arranged in a triangle
Pit # 3 Just off Kebler road at the Axtell weather station/sled park S 162* ECTP (28) SC 25cm up from ground on 4-5mm FC in (CO shit sandwich of MFCR & FC layers) HS 80cm