Observation: Tony Grove Lake

The snow surface is rough and littered with debris from last weekend's very strong winds. There are areas where pine needles have collected and covered the snow, like in the gully going up to Mt. Naomi.

The snow was supportable in tracked areas and very punchy in untracked. Sled skis sank about a foot in the afternoon.

We observed a decent-sized wet loose avalanche under Grandfather Cornice that occurred while we were in the area.

The snow on sunny slopes is completely saturated. The snow on N-facing terrain has some structure but is moving to isothermic. In our pit, we found distinct layers, with the most obvious and weakest being the 5 cm-thick graupel that fell on March 1. It has melted and refrozen into almost 5 mm+ slushy ball bearings. It sits about 8-10" beneath the last storm snow (4F+ slab) from March 4-6.