Glide cracks continue to open. Recent glide avalanches in Lynx Creek drainage.
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Magnum
Cornbiscuit over to Magnum uptrack to 3200′
Surface conditions inventory, glide observations and looking for BSH.
Observer Comments
Weather
Clear with patchy valley fog
Cold with inversion. -18 at parking, single digits on the ridge
Light southerly winds
Snow surface
2-4" of soft snow with 6-8mm surface hoar on top until around 1500' then transitioned to soft snow with a mini wind skin (dappled) to ridge line.
From road level to around 1350' there is a melt-freeze crust under the soft snow that is degrading.
Overall surface snow is becoming faceted from cold temperatures.
Snowpack
Dug one pit at 3000', west aspect, 30 degrees. HS:170. Dug down just over a meter. No buried surface hoar in pit. No notable results in stability tests.
Seattle Ridge glide crack
Lynx Creek drainage glide avalanches and cracks
Lipps glide crack
small glide cracks and wrinkled snow on Magnum
surface hoar over near surface faceting snow on a melt-freeze crust 1200'
dry loose avalanches/sluffs
Magnum cornice
Sunburst glide cracks
Pit @ 3000'
surface conditions @ 3000'