It was raining lightly up to about 1700' with wet snow falling above that. Winds were light with cloud cover varying from obscured to overcast. Temperature was 40 F at the parking lot at 1000'.
Toured up to treeline on Tincan. Visibility was in and out and there was a breakable crust on the surface so we elected not to go higher.
It was raining lightly up to about 1700' with wet snow falling above that. Winds were light with cloud cover varying from obscured to overcast. Temperature was 40 F at the parking lot at 1000'.
Wet snow on surface with a 1" (2-3 cm) melt freeze crust. The surface was less crusty and wet snow layer was deeper at lower elevations.
We dug a quick pit at 2200' to see how deeply the wet snow layer had penetrated from the recent rain. The total snow depth was about 80cm. On the surface there was a melt freeze crust layer which was about 1" (2-3 cm) thick with another 2-3" (5 cm) of moist and wet snow right below that. The rest of the snowpack was right side up and fairly homogeneous. With the exception of a 1/2" (1 cm) thick melt freeze crust in the middle of the snowpack. We did not perform any stability tests.