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East Coast
Spent a few hours in the Jumbo brook area. Not able to top out onto the hills on sled due to strong SE winds leading to very poor visibility up high. The snow in area is very wind affected and firm. The 15 cm wind slab was very reactive during tests performed on a west facing ridge top feature. CTV x 4 down 10. ECTV down ten. Both wind slab on crust.
We had a 2-3cm wet-ish crust over soft but dense snow. Looked and felt a lot like a sun crust despite being in fairly dense trees. Yesterday was a clear sunny day. The crust mostly supported a skier on the skin track, but would easily break on the descent with no adhesion to the snow under it. No further layer investigating was done since we turned around early in the tour.
Big sun and snow in the high country today. Great new snow coverage, with up to 30 to 50 cm of low density in protected zones. We found heavy loading in the lee of east facing features, with 100+cm pillows easy to be found. One could say, the Sledding was bonkers. We tested endless small features on our sleds, with no real instabilities showing. Our pit tests produced no significant results. We noticed a couple small size 1, thin slab avalanches, on east facing slopes. We did note some soft surface wind slabs, that in the right piece of terrain, could be reactive. Solar power was up today, snow in the alpine becoming sticky on solar aspects by mid day. We found good bonding of the new snow, to the first crust down in the snow pack. A real pleasure to be out today.