Weak structure, lots of whoomphing when breaking trail.

Weak structure, lots of whoomphing when breaking trail.

Date
Activity
Snowboarding

I toured in beehive today around the wilderness boundary and summer trail, riding and digging a pit on the E aspect (left side)as I was skinning toward the lake. There was about 90cm where I chose to do my profile.   Got CT 2 SC Q2 shear 70 cm down. I got ectp11 at 30 cm down. Talked to a seperate group of 2 splitboarders that came up skinning behind me, they had just dug a pit probably 50 ft below me, they also got ectp11. I saw a skier triggered slide on Tyler’s hill (lookers right of prayer flags gully), as I skinned in (ss-as-d1.5-r1-u). It looked  like it propagated across about 25 ft and just pulled out on the single roll over, I didn’t get real close, and figured a picture from that distance with trees in the way might not show much. Had skin glopping going on, most aspects on my split ski out had a crust on them, but that’s lower elevation.

Region
Northern Madison
Location (from list)
Beehive Basin
Observer Name
Tom Grande