Observations from Stevens Peak

Overall good refreeze of the snow surface in this area providing good corn snow conditions on E-SE-S aspects around mid day.  On open E aspects, the top 8 inches of the snowpack had refrozen last night with residual wet snow below. On N-NE aspects, up to 3-4'' of transitional snow from the last storm existed on top of a firm melt freeze crust.  This transitional snow combined with rapid warming conditions allowed for skier triggered roller balls and a small intentionally skier triggered loose wet avalanche in steeper terrain on a NE aspect as conditions warmed by mid day.  On E-SE-S aspects, minimal wet snow instabilities existed by mid day.