Snowpit Profiles
These pits are generated using a FREE and easy to use program available at www.SnowPilot.org. Through Snowpilot, snowpit data can be uploaded to a international database for use by researchers to study avalanches.
Watch a video that shows how to download and use the software.
Go to either the AAA page about Snow, Weather, and Avalanche Guidelines (SWAG), or NAC websites to get detailed guidelines on snowpits and stability tests.
Select a snowpit on the map to view the profile image
We went up there hoping for better coverage by new snow, but we still grounded out and hit a few ice chunkers underneath. The new-snow to old-snow interface seemed pretty well bonded.
