Observation: Cutler Ridge

Wet layers on the surface.

Shearing/wet-loose on test slope NE at 8500'

The snow was pretty damp below 7400', above that it was very heavy all the way up to 8700'. Conditions were spring storm like. I was unable to see any natural activity today, but that was mainly because the visibility was so poor. The new snow would easily shear at the interface with a little push and quickly entrain a lot more snow. Test slopes would run fairly fast for a wet slide and small debris piles set up like concrete. The new snow was sitting on a layer of soping wet slush causing glopping issues and icing of binding and ski edges as you got higher on the mountain. I also found some pockets on solar aspects around 7800' that were completely saturated and were unsupportable to the ground.