Quick report
D1 point releases but by 1300 when I left the field, none were gouging or fanning out into larger wet loose avalanches.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 28
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- light
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Decreasing cloud through the morning, Very warm in the Snowbowl lot, moderate west winds kept upper elevation terrain cool.
Snowpack
I dug one snowpit mid slope in south facing terrain in the area of some rock bands and found a weak snowpack structure. Weak facets below the Jan 28-31 sun crust were suprisingly well preserved. In tests, I had full propagation on the 12th and 13th tap.
Tracks are pushing into steep terrain on east and north aspects without triggering avalanches. From what I gathered today, the most likely place to trigger an avalanche is mid slope on a convexity or in the area of buried rocks.