Observation Date
11/29/2012
Observer Name
mark white
Region
Salt Lake
Location Name or Route
No-Name Bowl, PC Ridgeline
Comments
Figure No-Name would be a good place to find some supportable facet skiing with enough slab underneith to keep you off the bottom, lucky quess or not thats what I found. Ski cut in the top of the bowl released a few nice facet sluffs running a decent distance, but not packing any punch. Pic, facet sluff, slope is about 36, 37 degrees at the top.
Snow pit in the starting zone showed about 2ft total snow-pack, which consisted of 10" of very loose facets sitting on top of a 15" 3 finger slab with about 1 to 2 inches of an old melt freeze crust at the ground from the October storm. Some what rotted melt freeze crust was damp enough to almost squeeze water out of when compressed into a snow ball. Compression test reveiled no results, weakest layer is the 10" of facets sitting on the denser slab. Pics, pit with my glove laying on the facet slab interface, damp melt freeze crust compressed into a damp snowball.
Good skiing today, but probably not going to run out to this bowl after a new load of snow is deposited, might be all facets by then.
