Observed no naturals during short periods of visibility in the Turnagain mountains.
Multiple avalanches along the highway (pic below)
Observation: Turnagain
Location: Tincan Trees
Started from Tincan pullout ~10am and after tough trailbreaking we dug a quick pit to see how all this new snow is doing. Heavy and wet! Skiing was fun but slow.
Observer Comments
Weather
Temps hovering around freezing most of the day with intermittent periods of light snowfall (S-1).
Most of the day sky was obscured but sometimes opened enough to get a look at seattle ridge and sunburst.
Winds were calm-light from ENE.
Snow surface
Generally a foot of dry-moist snow over ~4ft of moist-wet, consolidated snow. Made for quite the wallow breaking trail and slow skiing coming down.
Snowpack
Performed a quick pit including a shovel tilt test and a CT test.
HS 122cm at 1872' on a WNW aspect in an open meadow.
Roughly a foot of dry-moist snow over a 1.5cm thick very wet crust with clustered-rounded grains, all over the rest of the snowpack being moist-wet, well consolidated decomposing precipitation particles.
Shovel tilt test saw no results/concerning storm interface layers in the top 75cm of the snowpack.
CT25 Q1-SC 95cm down from snow surface.
Looking up Tincan from the road
One of the few visability openings looking at sunburst
Lots of snow!! (A Claire for size reference)
Multiple avalanches along the highway