My oh Myra, you're looking thin!

<p>We went to Myra today to check out the snow in the west and to try to get some eyes on the alpine. It was a nice change of pace to have the snow connect from Tennant lake to the bottom with only a couple of precarious creek crossings. The alder is still out in full force on the road, with a snowpack of about 50cm at the trail head and around 95cm just above the lake. We could feel the above freezing layers while heading up the trail in the morning, but by afternoon it was much warmer down below. We enjoyed the built-in cooling system on our way up the trail by way of tree bombs and dripping from the branches. Above 850m the snow remained dry today, while below that the surface became moist and the snow was much heavier. For early season safety's sake, we stayed off the lake. We dug a pit just above the lake and got a hard sudden planar result down 70cm on the 10-25mm buried surface hoar, but did not see the same results in an extended column test. Sitting on top of our most recent storm snow is some new surface hoar that is about 6-10mm in size. We did not find any of the facets that have been evident in the east and the north zones near ground level. The top 20 cm of snow is still quite light for excellent skiing, but a little bit of effort for trail breaking. On directly solar south facing aspects, there was a 5cm surface crust sitting under the surface hoar. </p>

Terrain Ridden

Convex slopes, Dense trees, Mellow slopes, Steep slopes, Sunny slopes.

Snow Conditions

Powder.

Weather Conditions

Sunny, Warm.