Observation: NWAC Forecaster

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Weather Summary

Mixed . . . a few peeks of blue sky but greyed out most of the day. Periods of snowfall and wind but not sustained until mid afternoon. Warmer and less windy than anticipated.

Avalanche Observation Comments:

A few test slopes produced small wind slabs up to 20cm deep . . . nothing beyond that. Signs of rollers and small wet loose from prior warming.

Snowpack Observations

In most areas 5-20cm of dense new snow and/or wind slabs over rest on 4F PP. Lots of localized cracking but no shooting cracks other than on select test slopes.

Structure down to MLK crust is highly variable w/ crust down 25-150cm in pits in close proximity. Suspect that various wind events since mid-Jan scoured spx down to the crust in isolated features and it's only starting to build back.

1F layer of FC/RG down 25-50cm. In some places, this layer rests on MLK. All FC observed seemed better described as small mixed forms than a true, well developed FC layer or FCxr

No ECTP's at either 1F facets/round or MLK, a few ECTN's. CT scores varied widely but all SP's at facet/round layers.