Quick report
Avalanche hazards seem to be the two shallow cust layers and the facets sitting on the ground. Things seemed stable but arnt. Having eyes on the snow pack tells me that it's early season and the potential of a deep persistent slab problem developing later in the season is high.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 28
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- light
- Rain Elevation
- 5000
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- none
Broken cloud cover but the Sun crashed heating the snowpack. Light wind continued during the tour but no snow seemed available for transport.
Snowpack
We dug a pit at 8k feet on a north aspect. Found a couple different cust layers from rain/ thaw freeze cycles. No noticeable surface hoar but the facets on the ground still hanging on. We had an ECTN 13 @77cm on the interface between a rain/thaw crust, and an ECTN 23 @60cm between two different density slabs. The second break did not propagate during the test but when cleaning up the pit be we got the layer to react, I'll post a picture of the layer in question.