By:  Dino Moncecchi
Place:  Little Brooklyn Lake Ranger Station
Date:  3/19-20/04
Vehicles:  160
Ski Info:  
Skied into Station on 3/19 up power lines, nice day.  Had lunch then 
bushwacked up to Brooklyn Lake from the N side of Little B, crossed 
B L and bushwacked towards Glacier L, nice grunt, came out E of 
target, contoured W to ridge S of G L, skied W and S back to B L 
then S to L B L.  Spent the night in the Station.  3/20 followed 
tracks back up to B L did some flat land wind cornice jumping and 
dug snow pit, skied back to L B L had lunch and skied out.

Snow Pit Info:

271cm----Surface--------------------
	6cm		Fist
265cm----------------------------------
	4cm		4 finger
261cm-----------------------------------shovel shear
	17cm		3f
244cm-----------------------------------
	4cm		1f
240cm-----------------------------------
	14cm		1f
226cm-----------------------------------
	10cm		1f
216cm------------------------------------ss
	21cm		pencil
195cm-------------------------------------
	12cm		p
183cm-------------------------------------ss
	  1cm		4f:  old surface hoar layer
182cm--------------------------------------
	6cm		p
177cm--------------------------------------ss
	13cm		2f
164cm---------------------------------------
	15cm		2f
149cm---------------------------------------ss
	17cm		p
132cm---------------------------------------
	6cm		p
126cm---------------------------------------ss
	40cm		hard pencil: very consolidated
  86cm---------------------------------------
	86cm		hp:  vc
    0cm----Ground--------------------------

Slope Angle: 15d
Slope Aspect: SW
Temperture: No record
Snow grains:  Mostly < 1 mm

Comments:  As we skied there was breakable crust, probably 
the shovel shear @ 10cm below the surface (261cm).  The rest 
of the snow pack was very stable except the thin layer of 
probably old surface hoar  88 cm below the surface (183cm).