Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Here is what I saw on different aspects on Glory:
North - Windward slopes where sastrugi and heavily textured. Leeward slopes where drifted with recent snow or had crossloaded pillows.
West - Scoured, wind waled, and crusty. The occassional cross loaded drift made for soft turning.
East - Generally settled or recently drifted snow, often a breakable melt-freeze crust under 3-5 inches of recent snow. All wind slabs I noted were on E and SE slopes.
South - Supportable melt-freeze crust with 2-5 inches of snow atop. Skiing is not terrible if its smooth and you wear ear plugs.
In quick hand pits the snow that fell on 1/24-1/25 has already started to facet. New white snow the fell atop this is medium density.
Small soft wind slabs that were 2-6" deep on leeward slopes. They were not particular touchy and needed a very steep slope to get moving. I also noted some shallow slabs on south facing slopes that ran on the melt freeze crust.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 5
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
The couple inches that feel in the last 24hrs has been redistributed by the wind, which was generally light with moderate gusts. Low and mid level clouds move through throughout the morning with the occasional period of sunshine. I counted 7 snowflakes fall out of the sky.