Hot Pow

Some call it cream cheeze, we called it Hot Pow. You know, when the sun comes out with a little bit of greenhouse effect and it turns your 40cm + powder stash into something rather less fluffy. Anyways, Little Bear wx station at a similar elevation was reporting +1.7 C @ 1300hrs. But enough about the weather... howabout that snowpack and the bond of the new snow to old sun crusts from last week? Very easy to easy ECT results with full propagation (see pic with rutschblock cord still in place - failed when cut)... buuuut, the storm snow was not reactive to skier traffic, including ski cutting the usual short slope convexities that can be small performers on Nak shoulder.

ECTPV, ECTP 7 both down 47cm on a soft thin layer of decomposing fragments, graupel and spotty surface hoar (2-3mm) which was juuust above a 5cm thick sun crust from last week. Storm snow was 4F to 4F+ above the crust (which itself was P to 1F).