Observation: Summit

Location: Tenderfoot

Date:
Observer:
nancy pfeiffer
Route & General Observations

Drove to Moose Pass. Didn’t see much new activity, a couple D1 windslabs not breaking into deeper layers at upper elevations in Summit. Possible D2 slab near Silvertip?
Didn’t have a lot of time to skin, but found terible structure with hand shear easy at 2000′ W aspect on advance facets .

7″ new snow/
MLK era facets/
double MF crust sandwich from NYE/
advanced facets/
pencil hard Dec. 9 MF crust

New snow/slab was barely supportable– read waterskiing–and not yet at critical load but….

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