| Recent Avalanches? | No |
| Collapsing (Whumphing)? | Yes |
| Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Observation: Hatcher Pass
Location: Summer Road
Summer road to about 3200ft. Skied the road back to the car. Multiple parties getting good turns on the $1000 run though one person I talked to said it is “still a bit sharkey.”
Obvious signs of instability
Observer Comments
Tromping around off the road I got a couple small, localized collapses and one bigger collapse. No shooting cracks or releases on small test slopes.
Weather
High scattered, calm winds and 33F at the car at 1pm.
Snow surface
About 20cm new snow on top of the existing snowpack, with a few dippin' dots on the surface.
Snowpack
What appeared to be a mid storm density change about 10cm down, pulled out with medium effort in hand shear, giving an irregular shear plane. Ski pole probing showed the basal facets to be widespread and snowpack depth ranging around 50-70cm. Ski pen 20cm, Boot pen 30cm. Quick pit in photo, marked where I thought the layers are.