Corbin - New snow and Cornices

Today in the Corbin area we found 30 to 40 cm of accumulated storm snow from the weekend. This new snow adds to the upper snowpack over a melt-freeze crust that is down 60 cm. There were a few size 1 to 1.5 natural storm slab avalanches from steep south-facing alpine features. We had no results in our extended column test and resistant results in the storm snow (Compression test results - CTE (RP) 6, down 20 on decomposing fragments, CTM (RP) 16 down 35 DF) The riding was really good and supportive with a right side up upper snowpack over the crust. The storm snow is settling and with a few resistant test results, we stayed away from steep alpine terrain features.