Quick report
Somedays the gales are howling, sometimes the sea is still as glass...
- Toured various aspects in the southern WF Range today
- Found 25-30 cm of recent dry settled powder on all aspects
- A 4-6cm supportable crust was found on all aspects
- Right side up snowpack with wet rounding crystals below 45 cm on southerly aspects from recent warming period
- Northerly aspect had a right side up snowpack with dry snow down to the Feb. 3 crust buried over 100 cm
Weather
- Air Temp
- 10-20
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- none
- Rain Elevation
- n/a
- Recent Snowfall
- 2
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Cool start to the morning with very light winds out of the SW. Mostly cloudy skies turned to overcast by early afternoon. No new precip.
Snowpack
Found 25-30 cm of settled recent powder on top of supportable crust on various aspects.
- Trace of new snow overnight
- Both north and south facing snow pits had a small layer of graupel at the bottom of the recent snow
- NW facing snow pit: HS 253 cm, ECTX, dry snow sandwiched between various crusts in a right side up snowpack.
- SW facing snow pit: HS 226 cm, ECTX, wet rounding crystals below crust at 45 cm
Avalanche
no recent avalanches observed