Front Range

6 to 8 inches of new snow. Winds from the west with plenty of snow transport.

Below treeline, the snowpack is generally soft, and I was able to push my ski pole all the way to the ground easily. Snow depth was about 60 to 80cm (2 to 3 feet). Near Treeline I observed an east aspect. I found about 100 to 150cm (3 to 5 feet) of snow at this altitude. The snowpack felt pretty firm with multiple pencil hard wind-pressed layers. I found a crust about 90cm (3 feet) below the surface. This crust was icy but breaking down, and the snow on top of it was well-bonded without facets. New overnight snow was poorly bonded to the old wind-pressed surface. Above Treeline I probed a lot and generally found snow depths close to 150cm (5 feet) and deeper in many areas. There were some areas of weaker snow on southeast aspects close to rocks. In this area, the newly drifted snow was breaking in Compression Tests but was not propagating. These areas of shallow snow were an exception and quickly transitioned to a deep right-side-up snowpack. In deeper areas on the east and southeast aspects, I didn't dig to the ground, as a layer of pencil-hard snow was almost impenetrable to a probe and felt consistent all the way to the ground. At the surface, I did multiple tests on wind-drifted layers from yesterday, which were firmer than the snow below but well bonded with no Persistent weak grains. The overnight snow was still soft and not slabby yet. I stomped some cornice and was able to easily trigger long-running Loose Dry avalanches, but these never propagated out beyond the initial trigger. However, winds were blowing and I am sure this could change.