Submarine Bowl Snowpit

Our party dug a quick pit while skiing Submarine Bowl on woody ridge. Our pit was E facing at 9800 ft. Total snow depth was 205cm. We got an ECTN 25 @176cm from the ground. Though we were not able to get propogation on that layer, we were reliably able to get Q1 failures on that layer with a series of column tests which failed around 15-20 taps (5-10 elbow taps). Attached is a picture of one of these failed column tests. We didn't really observe any cracking or collapsing while we skied or approached from republic creek.