[MCR] Real time Blackcomb nearly backcountry

Subject: [MCR] Real time Blackcomb nearly backcountry
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:41:27 +0000 (GMT)
Hi,
Dale M, TK and I skined from the Horstman Gl (access is from the top of Seventh 
Heaven Chair) up to the Blackcomb Glacier and are doing laps there.
The average Ski Pen is 10-40 lots of wind distribution last night. Sometime we 
could feel the crusst left by yesterdays rain.
Foot Pen is 30-50 cm.

The patrol's explosive control left a few small crown lines (up to 30m across 
and up to 40cm deep)
 
We dug a test pit at 6780' on the Blackcomb Glacier. 1230pm

There is approx 20cm on the Nov 26 crust (which is moist and pencil hard and 
5-10 cm thick) below that the snow is 1 Finger minus - Pencil hard down to 1 
meter down.
We got a moderate compression test at 38cm down on 1-2mm decomposing fragments 
(clean fracture).
And another Moderate to Hard Compression Test down 67 cm 1mm decomposing 
fragments (clean fracture). 

Now its back to Skiing.

Dave Sarkany.
SG

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