Hollywood Bowl - Snow and tests

SNOWPACK OBSERVATION
Hollywood Bowl - below Mammoth crest
Submission Info
Forecaster
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 3:45pm
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37° 35' 54.258" N, 119° 1' 49.4616" W
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Toured up past Lake Mimie, to Hollywood Bowl.  Warm, cloudy day, light wind, surface snow moist on N facing slopes up just past 9500'.  No signs of instability.  Steep test slopes - no results, no cracks, no woomphing.  Test pit dug at 10,200' to test weak persistent layers.  See attached profile.  ECT tests did not propogate.  No failures in deeper rounding faceted layers.  Minor Compression test failures with Medium to Hard force in rounded more recent snow 25cm down, Q2 shears.   

Manky skiing below 9700'.  

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