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Observation: Turnagain
Location: Cornbiscuit
Toured up the common West Cornbiscuit Ridge – descended one of the North facing chutes.
Also, including a couple pictures of a glide avalanche on Tincan (~1,500′ in elevation, West aspect). This avalanche occurred around Nov 11th or 12th.
Observer Comments
Weather
COLD. Single digits with a very slight Southerly breeze on the ridge. Clear skies.
Snow surface
Loose faceted snow with some old stiff wind crust on North aspects. South and West aspects are variable; hard wind slabs, loose faceted snow and bare ground.
Snowpack
Thin. 1-2' of variable snow cover. The cold temperatures have begun to facet much of the shallow pack. Once buried, this faceted snow could become our first weak layer. Something to watch for. The good news is the winds have distributed much of the weak snow, so it's not as uniform as it could be.
Loose faceted snow on South facing Cornbiscuit ridge
Looking across the Pass at Seattle Ridge
Tincan Glide avalanche! This is one of the cracks that actually avalanched
Debris of the Tincan glide avalanche