Fantastic conditions in the White Pass

Agreat day of ski touring on the south-facing slopes above Fraser. The snowpack is consistently deeper than 150cm at all elevations. A breakable melt-freeze from the December 2nd storm could be found down 40cm up to about 1400m. The upper snowpack is mainly low-density new snow and near-surface facets with soft rimed and wind effects surfaces in exposed terrain near ridge crest. Ski cuts and hand shears didn't reveal any weak interfaces in the upper snowpack. Ski conditions were fantastic from the ridgeline to the valley bottom with no real avalanche concerns. The deep early season snowpack has smoothed out the terrain more than I have ever seen and buried most of the alder while the widespread avalanche activity from earlier in the month cleared out quite a bit of mature timber creating a couple of compelling new ski runs.

Inverted temps with cloud tops 1500m. No wind.

No layers of concern where we skied. Probing found generally well consolidated and right side up snowpack. Possibly some faceting windslabs lingering in isolated lee features.