Tamarack Zone

Light dusting of new snow in Tamarack parking area.  Bright sun and warm temps throughout tour of main Tamarack route to Peak then to Broken Glass and back to E Tamarack Ridge.

Sun affected snow on exposed aspects.  Cold unconsolidated surface snow remains in sheltered and protected aspects.  No obvious signs of instability or buried SH layer, although skier traffic was so wide spread it was difficult to find an undisturbed area to dig a pit.  I dug three quick pits all at approx 9500' on NNE facing slopes and could not easily see or detect any instabilities or buried SH.  Pit profile is from E Ridge of Tamarack which had the least traffic.  SH layer was not easily visible but failed easily CT5 ECTN8 with soft unconsolidated snow above it.  

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Hourglass and all normally skied areas had heavy skier traffic.

Broken Glass ridge showed obvious wind scouring and Broken Glass was a mix of soft wind blown snow up top and a crust on the bottom half.

More southerly aspects and lower elevations had significantly sun affected snow.