Melting Onion

At the Onion the parking lot is fully melted, but as you start heading up the trail, there are still a few patches of snow to jump between for the first 200 meters or so. After that, the trail is in good shape the rest of the way. Above 1300 m, there was 10-20 cm of recent snow on a hard and supportive 5 - 25 cm thick crust. The crust was thickest on south and west facing slopes that see a lot of sun. Around midday, it started snowing lightly and winds remained light to calm. We dug two snowpits on a northeast and a south aspect at treeline (1600 m). We did not produce any significant test results in either pit. We have attached a photo of each snow pit in the photos with some information on what we found. The snow on top of the crust was moist and sticky, making for some large rollerballs - something to look out for when the sun comes out the next few days, wet loose sluffs will need to be managed.