Lincoln Ridge Observations

We toured Lincoln Ridge this morning and saw scouring from last night's E winds limited to ridgetop areas, some unreactive previously wind loaded areas, enjoyable dust on crust conditions, and some surface hoar.

Neither last night's E winds or this morning's SW winds changed the snow surface conditions in areas below the ridgetops. Ridgetop areas that held 2 inches of recent storm snow yesterday had been scoured down to rain crust and inverted tracks. A short distance off of the ridgetops there was no evidence of wind effect.

I ski cut several slopes that showed some signs of previous wind loading with no slab failure results.

Surface hoar was widespread in open areas and will likely be destroyed and reformed several times before an opportunity for burial occurs.

We traveled only one S aspect today, but we noted that it held surface wet snow in sun exposed areas up to its highpoint of 7,127'.