37*F at 1000'
26*F at 3400'
Partly cloudy trending to cloudy by mid afternoon
Mostly calm winds with gusts up to 25mph
Light snow above 2500'
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Tincan
Standard Route to 3400′.
Weather
Snow surface
1000' Trace of new snow
New snow totals gradually building in depth where we found 8-16" of new snow at 3400'
Areas in the alpine had wind effected new snow - sometimes 2-3" thick wind crust
Snowpack
3200' SW aspect, 32< slope
HS 132cm
CT11 failed 40cm from surface on a density change within new snow
ECTX
12/9 rain layer was 65cm from surface and moist
Testpit 2:
3200', SW aspect, 30<slope
HS 95cm
ECTP20, failed 20cm from the ground on a facet crust interface (from veterans day)
Plenty of open water below 2000' on the approach to/from Tincan
H. Thamm Investigating a weak layer interface from a Planar fracture. Testpit results: ECTP20, 112cm from surface
20191214 3200' on Tincan, SW aspect, 32*<