Weather
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- 2
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Light snow and valley fog. Moderate temperatures stayed below freezing even at 3,000ft.
Snowpack
The snowpack is shallow in this part of the range. We found HS 90-120cm throughout the tour. 5-7cm of settled recent storm snow sits on a thin, zipper crust that disappears around 5,500ft. The crust is more pronounced below 4,300ft. Old crusty tree bombs and frozen rollerballs were more notable at similar low elevations. Generally, the recent snow was well-bonded.
At a profile site at NNE, 5405ft. Summary: Propagating test results on early January facets in the middle of the snowpack. No results on December melt form/facets. See attached images.
HS 117cm
91cm- CTM(RP). Tilt test- moderate, clean, and planar.
65cm- ECTP22. CTM(SP) on 0.5mm FCxr. Early Jan
51cm- ECTX. CTH(SP) on 0.5-1.0mm FC. Early Jan.
42-35cm- Dec melt forms. No results in ECT/CT/DT.
Avalanche
No new avalanches observed