Winds throughout the day transporting/loading at ridgetops, mostly sunny.
Sun was quite warm yet no rolllerballs seen on sunny slopes and snow remained dry through 3pm.
Observation: Hatcher Pass
Location: Flats below Microdot
Toured the flats below microdot which offered the least scoured and most ideal conditions.
Weather
Snow surface
Variable. Recycled dry snow, sastrugi, wind slabs (shallow and deep).
No melt freeze crust noted on sunny slopes, skiing was all transported dry snow at lower elevations. Up high looked hammered by wind.
Wind transport mid-upper elevations
Rapid warming from sun.