Date of Observation: 12/20/2022
Name: Billy Rankin
Zone: Southeast Mountains
Route Description: Up normal Snodgrass skin track with several deviations breaking our own trail, down E & NE aspects below 30 degrees
Observed avalanche activity: No
Avalanches: No new avalanches observed
Weather: Clear turning OVC, Highs in the 20’s light variable winds below treelike w/ a few flakes falling around 1500.
Snowpack: HS: 40-80cm’s throughout the lower Snodgrass area. The persistent slab structure still remains though the slab is eroding and getting thinner. We got a few small localized collapses below tree line while off the existing skiing track. We dug a quick profile on a NE aspect below TL on a 25 degree slope. HS: 65 small surface facets / surface hoar on the surface with 10-15cms of weak df’s on top of a 15-20cm 4F – 1F slab / mid pack resting on 20-30cm’s of basal facets 1-2mm.
Compression tests: CTE SP on the 11/28 interface. ECTN. PST SF