We toured up Sunnyside and dug a pit at about 2,000 feet on a W facing slope. The total snow depth was 310 cm, so this was likely a catchment for some of the snow that had been blown off the ridge. The NYE crust was 110 cm deep and an ECT showed no results  [ Read More ]

Traveled ridges to alpine. 4,200’.  [ Read More ]

Toured up to 2500′ to take a look at the upper snowpack ahead of the next round of precip and winds. It looks like the 1/10 storm rained almost all the way up the road, and there was a breakable crust just below the snow surface up to about 1800′. I dug at 1400′, 2200′,  [ Read More ]

Quick tour up Raggedtop to get an eye on storm totals and any recent activity in the past day. I saw plenty of dry loose debris across the valley on Goat Mtn., not much on Raggedtop. I was surprised to see how little snow ended up falling in the Crow Creek area- storm totals were  [ Read More ]

Raggedtop trees up to 2500′.  [ Read More ]