Powder is back!

25-30cm of fresh snow fell in White Pass on Sunday night vastly improving riding conditions. The new snow did come with some wind so riding was excellent in sheltered areas and wind pressed but passable in more exposed areas. For the most part, we couldn't even feel the old crust under the new powder snow. We did observe evidence of a Na wind slab avalanche cycle that produced a series of small avalanche on NE facing slopes during the storm. We dug on a northeast facing wind loaded alpine slope in the alpine in search of the early January surface hoar layer. We did find it buried about 100cm but the surface hoar crystals were very decomposed and the layer did not produce any results on snowpack tests. All in all, the riding was quite good and it was nice to see things shaping up again in White Pass after a pretty crusty week.