| Recent Avalanches? | No |
| Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
| Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | Yes |
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Pastoral
A nice day with a refresh.
Obvious signs of instability
Observer Comments
A number of shooting cracks observed on Pastoral north face. Occurred in seemingly isolated areas of soft wind slab. A few soft slabs approx 10 ft x 30 ft were kicked off. Sluff did ran the majority of the fall line.
Weather
Mostly sunny to start, with progressively more clouds throughout the day. Lows winds throughout the day.
Snow surface
About 10cm new snow at road level, increased to 20cm in the alpine depending on the aspect and elevation. Snow was low density at the east end of Sunburst's, and no evident wind slab. Snow quality was a little worse on Pastoral - a mix of soft wind slab, hard wind slab, and rime along the Pastoral Ridge. All snow was more wind effected on Pastoral, but turned to better quality skiing a 200 ft down from the ridgeline. Snow was wind effected, but still good quality skiing.
Snowpack
10cm new low density snow at road level, increasing to up to 20cm in the Alpine, depending on aspect.
Some cracking observed on Pastoral N aspect
Low tide down low
Lots of snow up high
Party of 3 enjoying sunny turns down Sunburst
Sunburst south face