Quick report
I was able to push some small wet loose on sunny upper elevation south aspects, running on buried sun crust. No other signs of instability observed.
Weather
- Air Temp
- Mid 20s through most of the day, short periods above freezing.
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- none
- Rain Elevation
- n/app
- Recent Snowfall
- 4 inches at 7000', 6 inches at 8000'
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Light snowfall and no wind to start the day. Sun broke through mid morning for a few hours before a dense cloud and graupel event arrived mid afternoon.
Snowpack
Overall, no signs of instability were observed.
The primary hazard today was sluff management in steeper terrain. On south aspects, wet loose avalanches were easy to trigger but remained small and did not gouge into older snow. The new snow is sitting on unreactive wind slab or sun crust. The sun crust is a smooth bed surface for loose snow to run far and fast on. The wind slab is much less of a planar bed surface.
No new wind transport was observed in the snow that fell overnight or the snow that fell yesterday.