Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Hope you can't get enough of reading obs from Tumalo! See the instability, snowpack, and weather sections for more detailed info. Experienced cracking and small sections of soft windslab breaking and sliding a few feet when traversing around the summit on a NW aspect. Slope was only 26°. The sections that slid were limited to right around our feet. No large collapses or wumpfing.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Recent Snowfall
- ~80 cm storm total
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Snowing hard in the parking lot at 6:15 AM and continued to snow until about 7:30 AM. Storm slowly lifted from there, with some sun beginiing to peak through by about 8:00 AM.
Snowpack
Dug a pit at 7,770, 25° slope, NE aspect Column Test: -CTM[12-16], BRK on several storm layers. -CTH25, RP at the interface of new storm snow and last week's rain crust. Didn't feel the need to do an ECT or other tests. Overall impression is that the storm snow bonded well to the rain crust, and that there weren't any storm slabs of concern. No evidence of wind loading up top. New snow is 4F.