Mostly cloudy in the morning, trending to mostly clear by early afternoon. It felt quite warm when the sun came out.
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Spokane Creek
We left the Bertha creek parking lot around 10:00am with the intention of finding some awesome north facing pow towards the end of the creek. We found a lot of somewhat cohesive hot pow over varying crusts. We dug a test pit below our intended line at the end of the valley, and ultimately didn’t ski the run.
Weather
Snow surface
The snow surfaces varied from light snow over a crust in the morning at lower elevations, and hot powder at upper elevations, even on north aspects. We dug several hand pits on the way up Spokane Creek and found cohesive soft slabs, tending to break on a buried crust.
Snowpack
We dug a pit near the line we intended to ski near the end of Spokane Creek on a North facing aspect at around 3400 ft. We did two extended column tests with ECTP13 and ECTP14 results. The block propagated about 45 cm down on a thin crust with buried surface hoar. We chose not to ski the line.
Location of our test pit.
Pit wall after pulling the block off.