Log Cabin Obs

<p>Rapidly settling storm snow and recent winds made for challenging/variable riding conditions. 10cm of new snow fell at Fraser in the last 24 hrs and the temps warmed up from -26 to 0C at the highway. Unfortunately the new snow was accompanied by moderate to strong southerly winds forming fresh, hard windslabs in the Alpine. The new new snow sits over a variety of weak old surfaces: about 20 cm of facets in sheltered terrain and a thin rimed crust on windward aspects. We didn't see any new avalanche activity in White Pass (to be honest we couldn't see much) but our we spent the day avoiding wind loaded pockets. Another complicating factor was the still shallow snow pack means that the winter snow has not smoothed out the ground roughness in more complex alpine terrain resulting in lots of spatial variability and lots of thinner weak snowpack areas to navigate around. Below tree line the snowpack is mainly faceted.</p>