Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
- Collapsing
- isolated
Walked up to the top of Henderson Mountain from town and skied multiple laps. Opted for an alternate route, breaking off from the Daisy Pass road before the steep 40 ish degree overhead slope and walking up the low angle S aspect to the ridge. Lots of conditions on the way up, same as the past few days: everything from a wind crust that could support body weight to hard wind slabs to soft wind slab, pretty much everything was consolidated to some degree though. Isolated cracking under foot only, and sometimes when breaking trail, my skis would break through the wind slab-hard to tell if this was actual collapsing or just breaking through some upside-down snow. Once in the Henderson ski zone, conditions still exhibited wind slab characteristics, both hard slab and soft slab in spots, but overall ski conditions were fantastic. No signs of instability while skiing the low angle terrain. Isolated cracking under foot only, and sometimes when breaking trail, my feet would break through the wind slab-hard to tell if this was collapsing or just breaking through some upside-down snow.
Snowpack
Hard and soft wind slabs widespread