| Recent Avalanches? | No |
| Collapsing (Whumphing)? | Yes |
| Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Sunburst
Ascended lower Sunburst skin track near Taylor Creek. Poor visibility with obscuring cloud cover; didn’t see the ridge. Steepest skin track up <35 degrees.
Obvious signs of instability
Observer Comments
None
Weather
Light snow (<1cm accumulation over 5 hours), very little wind, temps in mid 20s.
Snow surface
10cm new snow on top of melt-freeze crust from Feb 14 storm.
Snowpack
CTV at 1200'down 40cm on intact surface hoar 3.5mm. Multiple crust layers present within storm slab up to 1400'. Deeper crust disappeared ~1600'. Pit at 1900' on W aspect had 10cm new snow over 1cm melt-freeze crust, 135cm 1F-P RG slab over 20cm basal facets (facets were rounding); no evidence of buried surface hoar layer at this location.