Recent Avalanches? | No |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | Yes |
Hiked up Bertha Creek to ski the Grandaddy. Was only able to ski the bottom 2/3rds. The top was not quite filled in yet. Riding conditions were good. Slightly wind packed, but not punchy snow. I did not see any natural activity.
Recent Avalanches? | No |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | Yes |
I experienced a few shooting cracks on the NW faces of the moraines while skinning up the upper elevations of the drainage around 2700'-3000'.
New snow and wind transporting lots of snow. A few very light spin drifts coming down the couloir. My boot pack in the apron was filled in by the time I descended.
mildly wind packed, but consistent and great for snowboarding.
I dug a pit around 3500 just inside the mouth of the couloir. I found roughly 45" of snow on the ground. My pit results were CT22 Q2 it failed on a layer of graupel about 14" down.