by Jacob Urban | Dec 27, 2017 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
Snowpack tests are commonly misapplied to the process of decison-making. Pits while helpful in understanding trends in the snowpack are often less reliable when using them as a single point of reference. Their reliability and ease of interpretation increases when...
by Jacob Urban | Dec 26, 2017 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
December 26, 2017 Today we toured in the Northern Snake River Range over Edelweiss and skied the Shamrock into the Columbia Bowl drainage and made a few laps on the easterly aspects of the Columbia Bowls. The low angle slopes provided good snow conditions and safe...
by Jacob Urban | Dec 19, 2017 | Enhance Your Backcountry, Snowpack Update
On Monday, December 18, 2017, I took a walk up to the summit of Mount Glory in the Southern Teton Range. Our original objective was to take snowpack observations in the Great White Hump area. The wind and obscured visibility suggested that there were better days in...