Scattered clouds, no wind, light snow flurries of tiny rimed stellar and graupel mid-tour for about ~20 minutes but other than that no precipitation.
We toured up the South Fork of Eagle River to monitor trends in the area and to get a higher elevation snow pit. The landscape was severely wind-affected, with bare ground in many places and up to nine feet of snow in gullies.
Scattered clouds, no wind, light snow flurries of tiny rimed stellar and graupel mid-tour for about ~20 minutes but other than that no precipitation.
The snow surface had roughly ~3" of light, new snow on top of a variable wind layer for the majority of the tour. Snow was firmer along the ridge with patches of sastrugi and a breakable hollow wind layer.
We dug our snowpit right above 4,000' on a west aspect. While we were observing bare ground on ridges and wind-affected snow layers- some of the larger open-faced bowls at higher elevations on the eastern side appear to have more pronounced snowpack layering than what is seen in something like a Front Range wind-affected snow gully (like Peak 3 for example). We were able to get some reactive snow results (ECTP23) on the near-surface facet layer ~13" down from the snow surface underneath a hard slab. The likelihood of triggering that layer is low because it is such a hard slab, but the consequences are high in that area because of how much bigger terrain you are connected to.