Quick report

Waterhouse

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Cracking
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Toured cautiously up the east side of Waterhouse looking to get out of the lower elevation rain and see how snow was stacking up and adhearing to recent rain crusts. Saw some cracking along the skin track but kicking some test slopes did not casue failures. Wind was howling but did not observe significant transport given the wet snow. Traveled up to the knob, at 9k where we dug pits on the north aspect and skied the same. Snow depth was ~140cm. Observed 10-15cm of fresh snow on top of a 2cm thick crust. CT 11 and ECT12, both failed below the rain crust.