Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
4-6" storm snow from carpark to 5000' Continued snowing lightly until approx 11am. Snow was moist to 5000' but unconsolidated in the morning. Able to push loose dry in steep N facing terrain at 5000' around 9am. At approximately 12pm there was a noticable change in storm snow, it became more cohesive, thick and slab like. Lots of roller balls while skiing. Returned from Avalanche Mt at 1pm via snow lake divide and source lake. Visibility on source lake apron was less than 50m. Snow very sticky and clumping. Lots of wet avalanche activity from trees & rocks.
Avalanche
Source lake out track - lots of loose wet debris across track by 2pm Source lake apron - intentional trigger wet slab at convexity, all new snow slid easily Natural wet slide across creek at top of apron.