Mumfords Alaska

Quick report

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder, crusty

Mumfords skied surprisingly well today. 8-15cm of soft snow overlays a snowpack consisting of predominantly ice. Soft snow was a mixed bag of rimed new snow, decomposing forms and small near surface facets around the crust interface. In favored, sheltered areas, I found soft snow up to 25cm deep, and generally poorly bonded to the underlying ice, although not consolidated enough to propagate a failure. Snowpack depths ranged from 70-110cm above 2000'. The mid and lower snow pack were hard to get a probe into let alone a shovel. Some of the crusts and ice layers showed signs of beginning to decompose but observations were tough to make given the resistance of the snowpack to digging. Highest observed elev. was 3200'. Post from Avalanche Haines - Jonny Bomber 6/2/2018