Cold with poor visibility

31st January 2010

Testing for weak layers on a SE aspect…
Multiple weaknesses were found mainly due to the large quantities of graupel within the snowpack.

Whilst wandering around on the same slope the sub-surface layers cracked into large blocks.

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