Thursday, December 20, 2007

Great sunny day - but avalanche risk is high


I had about 25 settlements today. A settlement is when the snowpack draps - essentially it is an avalanche on the flat. I have never experienced so many settlements in the 1 day - My previous record was about 7. I had compression test easy results today - exhibiting sudden collapse on surface hoar and facets located on top of Dec 3rd raincrust which is buried about 42cm down in the snowpack. We are running an avalanche course starting tommorrow so the conditions could not be better for the course.


Kieren

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