Quick report
Continuous snow coverage starts around 5400 feet. We observed a hard refrozen snow surface. We traveled up to 6400 feet finding difficult travel due to the hard snow surface and broken snow coverage mixed with exposed rocks and vegetation. This description also fits what we could view of the complex and slightly higher elevation terrain above Roman Nose lakes.
None observed.Weather
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- none
Broken sky cover with intermittent sun mid-day. Clam to very light winds with fog rolled in after mid day partly obscuring surrounding views.
Snowpack
The November 14th and 15th notable rain event at all elevations has refrozen into a widespread rain crust. We observed zero boot or ski penetration of the snowpack. A dusting, 1cm or less, of edgeable snow is on the surface. The top 20cm of the snowpack is K hard. The lower half of the snowpack is 1F- hard moist snow, composed of mostly small rounded grains and melt forms, with a thin decomposing crust about 25cm up from the ground.