Valley fog in the morning then mostly sunny with calm winds.
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Sunburst
Toured up to Taylor Pass and then to the weather station. Skied down the ridge part way then the lower angle slopes N of Taylor Pass.
Weather
Snow surface
1-3 cm crust up to 2000, thicker at lower elevations. Soft snow above that with some wind affected surfaces mixed in.
Snowpack
We dug pits at 2800 on a W aspect and 3700 on a SW aspect. The 1/10 and 1/18 buried surface hoar layers were in all of our pits. We only had propagation in our extended column test on the 1/10 BSH in 1 pit out of 4. We did a propagation saw test on the facets over the Thanksgiving crust and got propagation along the column with a fairly long cut length (50/145 end).
Snowpack structure from below Taylor Pass
Snowpack structure from near the weather station on Sunburst ridge
Recent dry loose avalanches on the N aspect of Magnum near Taylor Pass
New small surface hoar on the surface in sheltered areas up to 3000'
Wind affected snow surface with Seattle Ridge in the background.
Only saw recent loose snow avalanches in the area around us today.
Some larger loose snow avalanches on S face of Tincan Proper