Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
A few baby slabs broke for me on small wind rolls. Otherwise, I got cracking in punchy 10cm thick hard slabs. Specific cracking on unsupported terrain or at the edges where slabs were thinner/softer. Trending less sensitive throughout the day.
Weather
- Air Temp
- Well above freezing
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- none
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Hazy cloud cover gradually decreased throughout the day. Occasional light, west winds. No blowing snow.
Snowpack
- Last night's wind stiffened almost all surfaces into a punchy, 10 cm thick, hard wind board over softer snow from the last storm.
- Low-angle, north, very sheltered trees above 9500' showed the least wind effects. Ski penetration there: 25cm. Under the wind-stiffened snow with softer snow underneath, there is a hard wind board/crust from between the most recent storms.
- Cloud cover and L W wind seemed to have delayed and limited solar warming. No new activity or rollers. No greenhousing, Northerlies stayed dry winter snow to the bottom of the lower gullies mid-afternoon. East, south, and west aspects below about 10,500 ft. got moist and refroze quickly.
- Pole probing ~10,000 ft. on northerly aspects: Snow depth = 135 cm.
- The upper snowpack is strong and right side up. I felt a crust buried in early March down 45 cm, and another hard crust over the January depth hoar down 90 cm.
- Hard sastrugi at ridges and some large cornices hanging over northeast-facing slopes.
- Small amounts of snow are available for southwest winds to blow around, but most fetches stripped/melted. Isolated windward areas have 35 cm boot penetration in dry soft snow.