Quick report
Travel was improving with added soft snow as well as improving astetics---dirty snow surface getting covered up, but beware the Wind slab problem is building.
We noticed cornices forming on the cut bank of the groomed trail, when touched they would fail easily.Weather
- Air Temp
- 25
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Rain Elevation
- Not Observed
- Recent Snowfall
- 10
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Cool and wet with South wind gusting into the Moderate range. Snowing moderately. 4inches of new snow by noon.
Snowpack
New snow seems to be bonding well to the old snow surface which was a crust. Solid snowpack with failures 25cm/10" below on 2/22 interface not propagating, ECTN with a harder shear than one would have expected.