Observed some minor cracking under skis and large tree-a-lanches from the old growth Hemlocks around Eddies.
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Eddies
Eddies standard West route to 2200′
Observer Comments
Weather
Overcast with some broken skies around 2:30 to 3pm.
Lightly snowing in the morning (s -1)
Calm winds
Snow surface
10" new snow (25cm) at all elevations from road to 2200'
Snowpack
A few hand pits failed easily or on isolation on very steep 40+ degree small test slopes. Otherwise the new snow was too soft and fell apart in hand pits on lower angle slopes.
Dug two pits side by side at 2200' on a North aspect on a 29* slope. We found 25cm of new snow from overnight sitting on ~15cm of of Fist hard facets (.5-1mm) on a MF crust. The new snow was F- and unconsolidated - no slab was present. We didn't have any test results in older layers either. CTN x 2 and ECTX x 2. See pit profile for more details and temp profile.
*Both snow pits were located just below a small role where Eddie's West ridge flattens out at 2200'. We probed around and HS varied from 30cm to 220cm - An area that can be quite wind effected.
Shovel tilt test to show new/old snow interface
There was a line between the new/old snow interface and suspected buried surface hoar, but couldnt find any with the scope. Just big stellars.
Didn't dig to the ground, only to 35cm. Could feel a stout crust at 30cm and suspected it was the Dec.9 crust
Near surface facets found below the new snow
Many old tracks were still visible under the 10" of new snow
The Hemlocks and Sitka Spruce were quite loaded in the lower elevations