Alright stop, collaborate and listen

Today we snowmobiled at Sterling and found cloudy and calm conditions. The rain crust caps the surface of the snowpack everywhere here, and is 10cm thick at lower elevations, and 30cm thick at upper elevations. It’s supportive to sleds everywhere. We saw a trace of snow throughout the day, with a freezing level around 600m. We saw no new avalanche activity. We did find a glide crack that was 3m deep at the bottom of a small, steep slope. We expect this happened during last weeks’ rain event, and is not so relevant to current conditions, but interesting nonetheless! We did not get an Extended Column Test(ECT) result, but we did get a resistant failure on hard hits on a Compression Test(CT) at the interface between the crust and the old snow (ECT X, CT H 22 RP down 30cm). The snow is dry. There are several other crusts 80-100cm deep in the snowpack but we did not see any results on these and it is unlikely that you would break through the surface crust to trigger deeper layers right now.