Quick report
My partners and I found generally underwhelming conditions with a mix of crusts and wind effected snow on the surface. We saw very limited evidence of wind transport and felt some very small, soft wind slabs under our skis - these slabs were not cohesive enough to produce cracking. The most notable observation from our tour was how soft and crumbly the buried crusts are becoming.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 30
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Mild temperatures and cloudy skies throughout the day
Snowpack
On a NE aspect at 7400' I found an average of 130cm's of cold dry snow that had been textured by the wind. The first 10-15cm's was 4F hard and overlaid another 15cm's of very incohesive near surface facets. I did receive a sudden planar result at this interface, however, the slab above was likely not stiff enough to propagate a fracture in my ECT. Several feet of small to very small rounding facets mixed with a few thin decomposing crusts and graupel layers overlaid the 12/18 crust, which was only 30cm's above the ground and 8cm's thick in this location.