Quick report
Monthly transceiver practice at the WMR beacon park, then a quick walk to Hellroaring Peak.
- Found a couple layers of buried (decomposing) surface hoar roughly one foot deep at 6700', North aspect
- This layer propagated in an Extended Column Test
- No other obvious signs of instability
- No sign of recent wind transport
- Solar aspects had two thin melt-freeze crusts in the top foot of snow
- The top crust was supportable on open slopes and punchy in the trees
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- 10
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Poor visibility, light winds, couple flurries
Snowpack
@ 6700' NE aspect: HS = 200cm, ECTP12 down 35 on SH, ECTN24 down 50 cm on 2/3 crust.