DCHP-3

snow probe

Arctic
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1946
The snow probe, a rigid but slender rod of brass about three feet long with a terminal knob of ivory used to test the snow, was carried in one of the gun bags.
1946
The main purpose of the snow sounder was to test the depth and compactness of snow with a view to the construction of a snow-hut . . . The implement was a straight, slender rod of antler roughly three feet long, usually shod at the bottom with a peg of bone or musk-ox horn.