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Signs of Unstable Snow

Observations

West aspects with sun crusts in non-shady spots, isolated wind slabs up to ~6cm in spots.
Weather was very warm in the sun and pretty cool in the shade. sunny, few clouds.
50-70cm snowpack. fist hard top half, knife hard melt-freeze crust (a few cm thickness) mid depth with facets to the ground. Felt like a homogenous snowpack without a slab. CT moderate Q3 above the melt-freeze crust. Skied slope which was thin, but good turns