Avalanche

Source Lake

Eric AkerSnoqualmie Pass
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Quick report

Overcast with very light misting/precip all day long. Sun tried to come up late morning but stayed behind clouds. Could only see bottom half of Bryant Peak & Chair Peak due to clouds. We ran a compression test and got CTH26 RP, on a SE aspect around 3800' elevation. A hasty pit nearby fractured around 30cm below surface but soft slab structure on both pits. No skier triggered wet loose activity happening, but on steeping sidehilling, we managed to create smaller pinwheels.

Weather

Air Temp
40
Cloud Cover
overcast
Wind Loading
none
Rain Elevation
3800
Recent Snowfall
None
Snow Avail For Transport
none

No wind, light precip, cloudy.

Snowpack

Wet but held up well to uphilling. Skier pen was about ankle high. Boot pen was almost to knees.

Avalanche

Not actively avalanching, but there were obvious signs of recent wet loose down No Fog, Bryant Couloir runout, and in the Chair Peak runout, but they had all stopped about halfway down, none had run down to Source Lake or entrained deeply.