Elephants Back Observations

Partly cloudy skies with full sun breaks throughout our tour today on Elephants Back.  3-4'' of recent storm snow was present in most areas with other areas being surface crusts.  Wind scouring and transport has been limited in this area with minimal amounts of wind slab development.  Snow surface warming occurred throughout the day with the snow becoming sticky with small roller ball activity by midday.  This roller ball activity was limited to the recent few inches of storm snow on top of a mostly supportable crust.  The limited cloud cover still helped to contain loose wet avalanche problems from forming up to our departure time by 1pm.