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South Side: Timberline

Joe DellaportaMt Hood
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Quick report

This side of the mountain below crater rock is very wind affected. Most pockets of wind-drifted snow appear to be healing up with minimal signs of instibility. Afternoon warming resulted in a few rollerballs in Salmon River Canyon.

Weather

Air Temp
Below freezing
Cloud Cover
clear
Wind Loading
moderate
Recent Snowfall
0
Snow Avail For Transport
moderate amounts

Snowpack

Below 7000 ft: The upper snowpack was crusted over during the morning hours and was in the beginning stages of a melt-freeze cycle. The crust broke down by mid morning.

Above 7000 ft: The snowpack remains dry and very wind-affected. Consistent smooth snow was hard to come by on the Triangle Moraine. Moderate east wind drifted available snow throughout my tour. However, I found minimal signs of reactivty within the firm 1F hard pockets of wind drifted snow.I observed plenty of slope testers out skiing bigger terrain features with no observed activity.