Tahoe National Forest Sierra Avalanche Center

The 27cm to 5cm facet layer showed signs of some rounding occurring throughout layer. Towards the top of this layer, just below the rain crust, facets were up to 1.5mm in size and more angular. At 62cm old buried surface hoar found during snowpack tests with limited reactivity.

Pit dug in below treeline terrain, previously affected by E winds.

Warming temps today produced impressive glopping on skins. Open areas on North facing terrain featured noticeably less supportive and more faceted snow than nearby treed areas. Pit dug in open area in otherwise treed location. Snowpack in this location ranged from 60 cms to 35 cms and was just navigable on skis. Echo Lake is mostly open water.

Pit dug in near treeline terrain. Facets appear to becoming increasingly weak as time passes.

Strong to gale force east winds still able to move light to moderate amounts of snow. Some facets were observed above the basal ice but were inconsistent throughout the snowpit.

Pit dug at treeline in area subject to previous loading during SW storm winds.

Pit dug in open area below treeline.