The only activity we saw was
- One recent deep, slab avalanche that occurred during this weekend’s rain in the Cascade Cirque on Timp on a N/NE aspect.
- One very small wet loose slide in one of the other UFO bowls on a E aspect
- One larger wet loose slide in the apron under the Grunge couloir.
Overall there wasn’t much recent activity other than the slides from the week before Easter.
8800 feet, E aspect - snowpack was roughly 2-2.5 ft deep. Rain this weekend had soaked it to the ground. The upper 5” or so was solidly frozen
10,000 feet, E aspect - 3 to 4 feet deep. The top 10” had been soaked and was s very hard crust. The rest of the snowpack had warmed and was barely damp. You could still easily find depth hoar in the bottom foot. ECTP 26 on that old depth hoar. CTV on it as well. It was bushy in the old depth hoar which perhaps skewed the CT tests to fail so easily.
With the very hard crust on top, it would have been hard to trigger any slide. Seeing the old depth hoar, made us think carefully about what we skied. For safer skiing and softer snow, we skied the skier’s left side with a SE aspect which likely remained dry early season and would not harbor the old depth hoar.