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Observation: Turnagain
Location: Seattle Ridge
Seattle Ridge common up-track into -1 bowl and over to 1st bowl.
Observer Comments
Weather
Broken skies becoming overcast in the afternoon. Light Easterly winds. Temps up to 48F in parking lot at 1,000' and in the mid 30's on the ridge.
Snow surface
South, East, West crusty surfaces becoming moist or wet (at lower elevations) by 1pm. Northerly aspects soft settled powder becoming moist by 2pm.
Snowpack
Interested in looking at the new/old snow bonding. New snow is 16" of settled powder and is sitting on a thin layer of facets over a stout old wind slab. Facets are rounding and did not react.
Dug one pit near a snowmachine triggered storm slab avalanche from Friday Apr, 5th.
Pit: 2,200', NNE aspect 15 degree slope
ECTX x 2, could not get the new/old interface to fail, even in shear tests.
Keeping an eye on cornices this time of year
Snowmachine triggered avalanche from Apr 4th, the day after 2' of new snow fell
Snow pit 200 yards to the looker's left of the avalanche pictured above
Many folks have enjoyed the late season powder weekend!
A look to the South up to BBQ hill from the top of Warm Up bowl (N end of -1 bowl)
Seattle Ridge headwall, toilet bowl area and up into the New World
Looking over towards Todd's Bowl on Tincan
Magnum's NW ridge
Eddies Southerly aspects - wet loose avalanches this weekend