Snowing S-1 and overcast when we plowed our way into a foot of new at the parking lot. Precipitation slowly trickled off until skies cleared to broken around 11:30 before returning to just gray overcast. Calm.
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Tincan Trees
Just had time for a quick up and down the skin track to treeline to check surface conditions and was pleasantly surprised!
Weather
Snow surface
A foot of dense fresh snow right out of the parking lot became 40 cms on top of supportable crust at 2200'.
Snowpack
Did a few handshears on the route up to see how the new snow was bonding to the old, but there was no slab. It seems with the moisture content and the uneven surface of the crust below that bonding was happening already. Total snow depth at 2200' was 100cms with the top 40 cms being new . No formal tests were performed.
Sun briefly poking out at 11:30 am
ski quality: not too bad!