| Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
| Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
| Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | Yes |
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Eddies
Today we toured to treeline on Eddies.
Obvious signs of instability
Observer Comments
We had cracking in small fresh windslabs that formed last night. No avalanching today, but we did see wet loose avalanches on steep aspects on Sunnyside, probably from the past couple days.
Weather
Clear changing to thin high cloud during the day. 20's into the mid 30's by afternoon. Light S wind.
Snow surface
Old powder with surface hoar to 3 mm on aspects with shade or less direct sun. More sunny aspects had a thin surface crust that became wet during the day. Near and above treeline the wind created small windslabs and scoured other areas.
Snowpack
We dug a pit on a NW aspect below 1000 feet in the forest. The snow height was 135cm. We had no propagation in ECT tests. There was a surface hoar layer up 60cm, a freezing rain crust up 70cm, and a surface hoar layer down 5cm, under the surface crust. See photo of pit wall.
We also dug at about 2000 feet on a north aspect. The snow height was 220cm. We found ECTN 21 (fracture initiation but no propagation) down 15cm on a 1cm surface hoar layer. This same surface hoar layer had shovel tilt hard results.
Pit wall from about 800 feet in the forest below Eddies.
Cracking in small windslabs that formed overnight on Eddies.
Shovel Tilt hard results on the 1cm surface hoar layer down 15cm at about 2000 feet on Eddies.
Sunlight through a thick section of snow showing the surface hoar layer down 15cm at 2000 feet on Eddies.