Heavy snowfall throughout the day with 8-10" of new snow in 4 hours.
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Eddies
Broke trail up to 1500′ on Eddies before giving up and breaking trail back to the trailhead in the 8-10″ that had fallen since we left the car!
Weather
Snow surface
Deep new snow. Breaking trail in untouched areas was thigh to waist deep at upper elevations.
Snowpack
We dug one pit at about 1200' and had a propagating result in our ECT about 1.5' deep on the interface with the old storm snow (ECT P 13). This is a sign that storm slab avalanches releasing about 1.5' deep were reactive due to the heavy snowfall rates. We did not see any other alarming results but our snow pit location was only representative of the below treeline and treeline elevations. We were not able to test the weak layers buried from 3.14 that have produced some large avalanches in the last few storm cycles.
Plowing in the parking lots was not so good. We elected to ski at Eddies instead of Tincan partially due to the better parking space.
Snowpack at 1200' on a NW aspect
Deep trail breaking through the forest!
It snowed 8-10" during the time we were out touring!