Quick report
Few signs of instability, spring-like conditions, and good travel from 1000ft to 3000ft. Manageable skiing. The only sign of instability observed was above-freezing temperatures.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- none
Very mild day with no wind, broken skies, good visibility, and no precipitation. A beautiful day in the Douglas Alps.
Snowpack
We did not observe any significant shears in our snow profile at 2950ft, NE, 26 degrees. Snowpack and pit were 160cm. The majority of layers were melt forms, crusts, or moist, rounded grains harder than "pencil" in resistance. There were a few softer facet layers in the lower snowpack, some moist, and some not quite, but they were capped by multiple crusts. We did not have any propagation in an ECT. As we descended a steeper southerly aspect just before noon, we observed natural and skier-initiated pin-wheeling of the moist snow surface. This was limited to the top 1000ft of our run, lower down the snow surface transitioned more to ice, then to a different, sticky variety of moist snow for the final pitch above Cropley lake.