So little - to nothing - to contribute to our current snow conditions. It's been two weeks since I've traveled along the Park City ridgeline and the top ~30 cms (12 inches) has completely faceted, but the snowpack still has a supportable structure which allows for decent travel conditions. Digging down to the Holiday crusts buried down 60 cms (~24 inchs) and it's faceted both above and below the crust, but the weakest snow is in the top 30-45 cms of the snowpack.
The northwest/west winds today did drift a few pockets of wind slabs up to 10 cms deep. These drifts were sensitive as they drifted on top of faceted snow, but were not widespread and cracking only extended around my skis. For anyone getting into steeper terrain in the upper elevations, fresh, shallow wind drifts are likely to be encountered, but not enough to warrant an avalanche danger above Low.
Photos of
- cracking;
- wind sculpting along PC ridgeline;
- well, I guess, about the softest tracks you can find these days.
