Remains of numerous avalanches from the New Years storm.
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Eddy's west aspect
Traveled the IT to lower meadows and established skin track up the west face, south of the standard route through and above the trees. Toured to 2700′.
Observer Comments
Weather
Partly cloudy most of the day. Winds calm. Temps in the upper 20's. No precipitation
Snow surface
3-4 inches of powder at all elevations over a variable rain crust that was punchy at lower elevations but pretty stout in the upper elevations.
Snowpack
Dug a few hand pits along the route in and found most of the upper layers pretty well bonded. Most hand pits broke apart before any shear.
Dug a quick pit @ 2000' West aspect, 28 degrees slope, HS 130 cm
ECTN14 @ 20 cm under the most resent rain crust and ECTP16 on the same crust - both Q3 and little energy. Although the slab collapsed and propagated it was hard to get it to budge off the column.
Snowpack contained numerous crusts in the upper layers and a gradual hardening to 1F with depth. We only went to ~3 ft so no info on any basal facets.
Old debris from the Jan 2 slides on Eddies west face
Old debris on lower slopes of Eddies
Pit at 2000'