Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Hiked up to about 1600′ then put my skis on and toured up to Tincan Common. Where I put my skis on there was about 6″ of snow with an icy crust on the surface. At my high point around 3200′ there was roughly 3′ of snow on the ground with a breakable sun crust on the surface. Most of the snow is from the storm this past weekend, other than a thin layer about 6″ deep at the base. There were tons of glide avalanches and glide cracks all over the place in Turnagain Pass.
Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
Collapsing (Whumphing)? | No |
Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | No |
Lots of glide avalanche releases all over the place. Some of them were quite large, sending debris running onto the slopes below.
Cold and clear overnight. Calm winds and blue skies throughout the day. Some small cloud layers forming along Seattle Ridge in the afternoon.
Melt freeze crust in the morning. Snow temperatures were heating up quickly on sunny slopes. The solar input this time of year is roughly similar to early March.
Above 2800' the melt freeze crust was no longer supportable and there was dry decomposing new snow underneath the crust.
I dug a quick pit between Tincan Common and Hippie Bowl at about 3100' on a SW aspect. The snowpack was about 3' deep with most of that snow coming from the storm last weekend. All of the new snow was very right side up, with a 2-3" breakable sun crust on top. At the base of the snowpack there was an older snow layer about 6" deep with a 0.5" thick ice crust on top. I didn't see any signs of faceting in the basal layer. No results in my extended column test.