| Recent Avalanches? | No |
| Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
| Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | Yes |
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Tincan Common
Beautiful sunny day, some soft snow. Much more wind effect than expected right down to road level. Noticeable heating of surface snow by our 3 PM finish, though not yet wet or gloppy.
Obvious signs of instability
Observer Comments
With significant effort, was able to make wind slabs break and slide down from Tincan Common Ridge-line, into Tod's bowl. These were at most 10' wide x 5' long. Slabs seemed not to be cohesive, as areas I would have expected to all slide at once, went in pieces as a walked through the slab.
Weather
Splitter blue. Seemingly low winds on Tincan, though snow ribbons observed on nearby high alpine mountain tops. -2c at car at start 10am, +2c at finish 3pm.
Snow surface
Variable. Mostly of soft wind slabs within treeline, at treeline. Variable in alpine - soft wind effected snow (5-10cm ski penetration), hard wind slabs, sastrugi on ridge top. Yesterday's skin track was 50%-100% filled in depending on aspect. Snow surface was more moist in the afternoon. Not significantly wet. I'd wager that there are some pockets of soft snow elsewhere in the area, but the best alpine snow we found was in the West / Southwest Tincan Common aspect.
Snowpack
No formal stability tests. Observed variable surface conditions and densities with pole probing.