7-Mile

Light snow with a south wind, low visibility throughout the day. Drove out to Nadahini in the morning where the south wind was blowing with visible transport of snow and leeward cornices. Generally conditions looked thin and variable throughout the pass beyond treeline.

At the surface dense snow over a crust that softened higher up. Dug a pit at 2,300' on a SW-aspect total snow depth 170cm. New snow totals were 45cm over reactive 6-8mm buried surface hoar and old weak near surface facets. This was a very distinct layer and propagated in an extended column test ECTP21 down 45cm. Beneath the recently buried 1/8-10 surface hoar was the old surface hoar layer that formed 12/31 down 90cm. Near the very bottom of the snowpack was a pocket of weak snow down 135cm.