Quick report
Deep storm snow topped with intermittant soft slabs made for difficult travel again. Several weak interfaces were present including the New/Old interface. Moderate ridgetop winds from the N/NE were actively moving large ammounts of dry snow. Crossloading from previous west winds was widepread on shoulders and ridges just obove our location.
Weather
- Air Temp
- -4
- Cloud Cover
- clear
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Recent Snowfall
- 100 cm storm total.
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Cold and clear with light winds at road level. Moderate to stronger NE winds transporting snow at rigetops.
Snowpack
100 cm uncohesive fist hardness storm snow on knife hard windboard. Isolated areas of soft slab to 20cm thick on surface. Boot penetration = 90cm. Interfaces within the storm snow were revealed with pit tests. ECTN 7 down 20, ECTP 18 down 80. On the new old interface at 100cm pst result was PST END 40/100.