| Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
| Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
| Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Pastoral
Tour up Taylor pass to Pastoral Summit.
Obvious signs of instability
Observer Comments
Only sign of instability was the glide cracks. Easy to see and avoid being under them.
Weather
Some sunshine early in the day! Great for touring. Turned gray when we needed the sunshine the most for our descent.
Winds were mostly calm.
Snow surface
Patchy wet snow and ground from parking lot transitioning to breakable rain crust over softer wet snow from 1,500-2,500'.
3-4" of dense moist snow nearing Taylor pass at 3,000'
Snowpack
Snow depth at 4100ft is around 180cm
We dug a pit on the NE face of Pastoral at 4100ft
ECTX - could not find a weakness in the pack.
Crew
Pit
GlideSlide on Sunburst