Tunnel Snow station

We trenched into Pinnacle Creek to troubleshoot the Tunnel Snow station, which quit reporting the morning of 3/21.* 

• It snowed. All. Damn. Day. Varying intensity - S1 to S5. Sometimes really big flakes. At the end of the day, my ski bases were snow covered 5 minutes after I tossed them in the truck bed.
• Probing with ski poles showed about a meter of recent snow above the most recent hard surface. Thigh deep stepping off the sleds at 4900 ft. 
• Ski penetration while trail breaking was mostly calf deep, sometimes knee. 
• We saw almost no blowing snow at mid elevations. Very little wind effect on the mid elevation ridge where we traveled. 
• Avalanche activity was mostly small-large soft slabs on leeward, upper-elevation slopes. And loose dry avalanches whose size depended on terrain (D1-D2.5). See avalanche summary/ avalanche events.
• We fixed the power issue at Tunnel Snow; it's reporting all values accurately as of 1900 on 3/22.

*That also produced output errors at Tunnel Wind, though it was recording accurately. 

• Up to a meter of recent snow between 5000 and 6100 feet. Dry, soft, and relatively low-density, with a few storm interfaces/ density changes. Cohesive in isolated spots/ after some sun (10 minutes of broken skies made for more slabby feeling snow on the windward/ sunny side of the ridge).
• Surface snow barely kissed by the wind on the ridge between those elevations. 
• Small, fresh cornices dropped easily with a ski stomp, but with no propagation.
• Debris from cornices drops didn't trigger slides except in one case, when the debris ran over a convexity and triggered a D1.5 soft slab (see avalanche events)
• At low-elevations, recent snow was moist in the morning; borderline wet below 4000 ft by end of the day.