Quick report
- Collapsing
- isolated
Today we chose to follow the alders as our guardrail, with low visibility and worsening clouds throughout the day to assist our goal of assessing stability at low elevation. The most recent rain crust that formed on 1/12 was found up to approximately 2600'. Above 2600', we found 6-10" of dense snow that was depositing during the last storm sitting over weak sugary facets. Hand shears revealed that moderate to hard force were required for the slab to initiate in more protected terrain. Once we got above treeline, slabs were noticeably more cohesive. Our test results confirmed that the persistent slab problem continues to exist, but tests are trending more stubborn.
We did not observe any recent avalanches today. We had isolated collapsing underfoot and no cracking.Weather
- Air Temp
- 25
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Recent Snowfall
- S<1
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Light winds were enjoyed throughout the day with moderate gusts from the ESE felt as we perched over the Knob around 3000' above Gold Mint. Temperatures were balmy in the mid-twenties with light snow S-1 throughout our tour.
Snowpack
We dug two pits on our tour today.
Pit#1 W aspect near the Mint Bump, 2700'. We got propagation approximately 60 cm down in a thick layer of weak sugary facets. ECTP19
Pit#2 We dug on a N aspect, Two Lakes 3050’ and found several weak layers but did not have propagation in our pit.