Full cloud cover above 5000', then dropped to 3500' by 2p
Calm to light NE winds
-4°F to +14°F
Intermittent S-1
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Sunburst
Standard up track to 3200′
No sign of wind transporting snow at Sunburst, Tincan, Seattle, or Magnum ridges when we had visibility
Weather
Snow surface
Snow surface was 4"-10" of powder
Occasional wind effected areas, mostly along the ridge
Snowpack
10 handpits between two of us at various elevations from 1500' to 3300' - only one hand pit (in the trees at 1800') revealed obvious visual sign of buried surface hoar (from Solstice).
Snow from previous 4 days seemed to be settling but not forming cohesive slab
Testpit at 3000', HS160cm, southwest aspect:
CT19Q2, 25cm↓ on 0.5mm rimed stellars
ECTX
No visual sign of buried surface hoar layer/s. Upon searching, found some crushed BSH mixed with decomposing stellars 55cm↓
Recent winds carved the Sunburst ridge at 2700', loading the southwest aspect