Unaffiliated / Individual

Pit location just below Arrowhead Bowl, brutal, strong winds deterred us from going higher. Rain on snow event seemed to have solidified the bottom 20cm of snow. Strong westerly winds were blowing down all east facing basins. Noticed recent avalanche debris in October Bowl to the south. Snowpack is still thin in places it has not been wind drifted, variable conditions.

Very layered snowpack with many different crusts. Natural avalanche, looked cornice triggered on different N/NE aspect near ridge line at ~ 10,000 ft. elevation. Snow pit layers of most concern are two Knife crusts near the surface (80 cm and 76 cm above ground respectively) and a buried layer of small facets 45-58 cm above the ground.

Shovel Tilt moderate, clean fracture on interface at 90cm.

in high loading area, just under wind lip CT E3 @25 non-planar CT M5 @40 resistant planar CT H7 @50 resistant planar

Heavy NE cornicing observed. Complex wind transport, NE aspects stripped.

Planar, TL, Scattered Trees