Winds: Calm
Temps: Teens °F
Skies: Scattered to broken with valley fog from ~noon to 2p.
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Eddies
Standard uptrack
Weather
Snow surface
1-2" of new low density snow over 12-18" of consolidating storm snow from 2/12.
Snowpack
Eddies
Testpit #1 (within a small tree island somewhat protected from north winds)
2160'
Northeast aspect
Ski/Boot Pen.: 20cm/50cm
HS180cm
We conducted 2 ECT's at this location:
ECTP15RP ↓35cm on 0.5mm decomposing precip particles/near surface facets
ECTP16RP, ECTP19RP ↓40cm on 0.5mm decomposing precip particles/near surface facets
ECTP23SP ↓92cm on 2-3mm facets below NYE crust
Testpit #2 (above treeline and exposed to north winds)
2520'
North aspect
Ski/Boot Pen.: 20cm/50cm
HS 215cm
ECTP13RP ↓30cm on 0.5mm facet layer
ECTP25RP ↓50cm on 0.5mm facet layer
We didn't find the NYE crust in this location
This image is looking north from Eddies. The sky offered a good show today with intermittent valley fog, some cirrus clouds, and sunny moments.
Looking toward Seattle Ridge from Eddies.
Looking toward Tincan ridge from Eddies. Nice light show!
The snow surface on Eddies headwall seemed textured from the wind, but nearby slopes with the same looking surface were soft and easy to travel through
The top 2" was mostly made up of beautiful intact low density stellars like these
The image of facets were found on this propagating failure ↓40cm
These 0.5mm decomposing precip particles were slightly faceted and were the weak layer in propagating failures within the top 2' of the snowpack
The New Years Eve crust/facet interface was stubborn to trigger 92cm below the surface and the well developed facets below (and sometimes above) remains one of the layers of concern.