Weather
Cold morning quickly warming up throughout the day. Few to scattered cloud coverage and moderate winds with no clear direction, drifting snow on most slopes above treeline, but not efficiently where we were.
Snowpack
Very minor cracking when we found thin sections of wind-drifted snow but any kind of cohesion in the drifted snow was isolated to small patches a few feet across and too thin to knock someone off their feet. We found one old wind-drifted slope on East Geissler that had very firm and hollow snow on an unsupported steep slope hanging over cliffs and was probably the only slope we intentionally avoided all day. Around 2 to 4 inches of new snow, more in some isolated wind-drifted spots halfway down steep alpine faces.
Avalanche
No avalanches observed