Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
We found very few signs of instability where we traveled other than the obvious signs of warming - pinwheels, roller balls and tree bombs. The light snow from earlier this week is now a bit heavier. Good skiing was had in smooth undisturbed areas on N aspects. We skied hot pow on south aspects as well as a refrozen surface later in the day(less fun). Only observed isolated cracking in the skin track above 4700' on Wright Mountain in wind affected snow. Plenty of rollerballs and pinwheels on solar aspects with no entrainment into your traditional loose wet slide.
Weather
- Air Temp
- Not taken
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 10
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Light snow in the AM that stoped by 9:30 - fog and clouds persisted until about 10:30 then mostly sunny with a few scattered clouds. Calm to light winds most of the day.
Snowpack
Snowlake Divide - 4500' NE aspect HS 230cm HST 10cm Graupel less distinct then found in the Friendlies down 30cm, no results on that layer in this location 1/3 layer down 100cm Top 30cm had stiffened from F yesterday to 4F today