No collapsing or cracking.
Observation: Hatcher Pass
Location: Eldorado
Toured up Eldorado Bowl to assess how the cold weather is affecting snow surface/ski quality and look for buried near surface facets.
Observer Comments
Weather
Cold! Sunny and calm but cold at Independence and colder at Gold Mint.
Snow surface
The snow surface is still stiff from the warm wet storm Thursday. The upper ~2-3 inches is an occasionally supportable board. Also extremely "slow" snow - glide is hard to come by. Snow feels slabby when stepping onto thicker wind affected areas.
Snowpack
The near surface faceting observed on Wednesday (2/22) was hard to find. We found a few facets and a couple pieces of graupel intermixed with decomposing snow but not an identifiable band. We did not have any propagation in our pit (ECTN 11) on the new/old interface.
crown of D2 on lower Goverment
The upper drizzle crust is around the middle of the new snow.
Dry loose from sometime towards the end of the last storm.
Variable surface photo