No obvious signs observed
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Petes north
Common uptrack
Observer Comments
Weather
Overcast for most of the day. Patches of blue
Snow surface
New snow starting around at the parking lot. Around an inch @ 628' and increasing to 40cm @ 2672. Thin wind slab forming along the ridge.
Snowpack
Did several hand shear tests along the way up snow seemed to be very consistent. New snow seems to have bonded well to the crust and to the old Snow. Along the ridge at ~2000-2600' we observed a thin wind slab forming ~4" thick. Hand shears were easy but we were unable to get much activity with ski cuts above our skin track. We dug @ 2672' sw aspect. ~28* slope. Ct 21 pc q3. Ct 24 pc q3. Ectn 24 pc. Fracture plane was 40cm down. Suspected new snow old snow interface. HS was 3 m.
Some large cornices growing up there