Corn Snow on Chickadee Ridge

Strong winds and increasing cloud cover during the day. Enough periods of sunshine did occur for some low angle, wind-sheltered SE-S-SW aspects to soften by 11:30 am. At this time 1 to 3 cm of soft corn snow existed on top of a firm supportable melt-freeze crust on these sun-exposed aspects.  Ski cuts on test slopes and general observations did show signs of loose wet instabilities.

Northerly aspects and shaded slopes remained firm and frozen into the afternoon.