Quick report
- Collapsing
- isolated
Many D2-D3 slides from tincan proper and the library that went all the way down to the creek. The crowns have been covered up by the storm but from the size of the slides they likely failed on the December facets. Some smaller storm slabs slides with visible crowns were also present in a few steep areas. We toured up center ridge to kickstep glacier. Bulletproof crust the whole way to just below the bottom of the moraine at 2400ft, where it pretty immediately turned to dry-moist windblown snow. We dug 2 pits at 3200ft, and other than finding a slightly weak interface in the new storm snow 1 -1.5ft down, we couldn't find anything concerning below that. We only dug to 150cm so its likely that the December facets were buried deeper . While stepping on flats on the moraine at 3100 ft we felt a loud and large whoompf, which prompted us to dig the pits in the nearby area. While touring on one part of the moraine, at 2900ft, we crossed a thin spot in the snow pack and found tons of sugary 4mm+ cupped depth hoar that looked like something from a textbook. There was also a bit of a soft wind slab in the area but it didn't seem like that was what caused the whoompf. We didn't experience any other collapsing the rest of the day. We toured up to 3800, found dry soft powder and nice low angle turns on the glacier.