Another blue-bird day with no wind. Temps right around freezing.
Observation: Hatcher Pass
Location: Marmot , South Aspect
Up the standard up-track from the Fish Hook parking lot to the south ridge/face.
Weather
Snow surface
On south aspects with slope angles greater than 25 degrees, there was 2 cm of snow over a developing melt/freeze crust that was 3 cm thick. The crust is fragile.
Snowpack
Under the crust a layer of small facets is developing. Easy shears were seen doing the shovel tilt test, sliding with a sudden planar character. CT and ECT tests were not conclusive for this layer, mostly because the layer was destroyed conducting the test. But there were no significant results from layers lower in the pack.