Snowpack

Tuckerman Ravine

Sam DyerPresidential Range
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Quick report

While I did observe new snow on the surface that had been drifted in by northern winds in the last 36 hours, the warm temperatures yesterday (3/7) and strong solar affect has removed any slab characteristics that may have been present yesterday, and I didn’t see any thing that made me concerned about a wind slab problem that was forecasted yesterday for these aspects. But without a consistent freeze/thaw cycle, and the strong solar gain this morning. the surface snow was prone to wet loose activity, confirmed by the new wet loose debris in right gully, and beneath the sluice ice, and watching a skier descend right gully, and seeing the surface snow sluff off with each turn they made I saw lots of wet loose debris in Right Gully and Beneath the Sluice ice fall, that happened late yesterday or this morning. Lots of gullies are filled with older wet loose debris, but I was in the ravine yesterday and didn’t see these particular debris piles. I imagine the slide below sluice was caused by ice fall from the cliffs above.

Weather

Clear skies, warm temperatures, light winds, strong solar affect on sunny aspects.

Snowpack

Moist, unconsolidated snow with a few decomposing ice crusts still present beneath snow surface. South aspects seemed to have accumulated 5-10 centimeters of new snow overnight Wednesday into Thursday, northern winds during that storm, and yesterday likely helped this snow accumulate more on these aspects than the other side of the ravine.