High overcast, light snow. NE winds 10-15 mph
Went for a day tour up regular skin track in Wedding Bowl on Ben Stuart. High overcast made for challenging lighting conditions but snow was soft with minimal wind effects.
High overcast, light snow. NE winds 10-15 mph
10cm of fresh on base of wind-pressed, settled powder.
Dug a pit at 2600' in Wedding Bowl. While testing the stability of the Thanksgiving Day crust we found the following:
- ~180cm total snow depth
- 110cm of 1 finger / pencil hardness consolidated snow above the Thanksgiving Day rain crust
- <5cm of 4 finger facets directly above the aforementioned rain crust
- ECTX (no movement during stability tests)
We suspect this location was wind loaded due to location and thickness of snow above crust.