Quick report
Went to No Name Bowl in hopes that the E-SE winds from yesterday morning, did not get a hold of the surface snow in the mid elevation protected N facing bowl. There was some wind damage but mostly on the right side of the bowl. The E facing part of the bowl had very little wind damage. The main activity noted was long running sluffs entraining a good amount of snow in steeper terrain. The E facing part of the bowl is basically a facet farm with last weeks new snow resting on a couple of feet of faceted snow on dirt, probably the deepest pile of facets I’ve seen in a while. We dug a pit on the E facing on a 36 degree slope, there’s not much structure to the snowpack, basically a few feet of faceted snow with a couple layers of decomposing crusts. Pretty sure that this slope will not hold much weight of it gets a load.
Photos: sluffs we triggered while skiing or from the ridge line, snow pit with the decomposing crusts isolated.
Snowpack
Wind crust and wind slabs in wind exposed terrain, light density powder in wind protected terrain.