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Observation Details

Signs of Unstable Snow

Observations

Traveled from Summit East over to the lower slopes of Mount Catherine. Lots of very low density snow in areas that weren't wind stripped (~45cm down to the first firm layer) with a consistent mid-storm layer ~10-14 cm down. This layer consistently slid in the corners of steeper kick turns throughout the day, but the snow was generally not cohering into a slab for this to propagate further. In more wind exposed areas a few small cracks were observed within the storm snow along with very obvious firm wind affected snow overlying much softer layers immediately below.