[MCR] Emerald Lake Friday

My friend Marc and I enjoyed blue bird weather today at Emerald Lake.  
We skied terrain between 1300 and 2400m elev.  HS varied between 135 cm 
at the bottom of the path and 230cm near ridgetop.  Compression tests 
yielded easy collapse down 10cm and resistant planar down 35cm.  We 
stayed away from S aspects as the solar affects today were signficant 
with sloughing and snow balling (rocky peak looker's R of main path).  The 
majority of the cornice feature above the gully looker's L has collapsed
 with no result on the slope below.

Of importance, we observed significant surface hoar from the 
Lake up to about 2100m elevation.  It was still standing when we skied 
down at 1400h.  Plate size 4-8mm.  This could cause concern when buried 
by future snowfall.

Overall, excellent skiing through ankle deep storm snow, although 
this path has seen a lot of traffic since the last storm event, and 
fresh tracks below 2100m are getting more difficult to find.  Air temps ranged from -2 to -5C.

Brent Peters
AAG
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