East Ridge Relay Peak

Toured up to Relay peak from incline lake pullout, it was snowing from right around lake level at 0815. Heavy refrozen snow existed below treeline in the AM, with light snowfall and moderate to strong SW winds. Observed wind transported snow from near treeline terrain and into the alpine with snopw available for transport. Climbing the east ridge of Relay, we stopped at 9600' to dig a snowpit on a north facing aspect to look for the Jan 4 crust/facet layer. We found the PWL buried 76cm from the surface on the ridge in a windloaded area. Performed a CT, ECT, & PST trying to gathwer some more data in this zone. (CT12 Q1, ECTX, PST 70/100 End dwn76). It appeared the Facets were rounding but we kept our terrain conservative today.