Round Top

We toured Round Top near Carson Pass. My guess is 3-5 inches had fallen by late morning with another inch or possibly 2 inches added durring intermittent daytime showers. We did a quick stability test on an east / northeast aspect at 9446 feet near the usual skin track to the shoulder of round top. We got CT22 Q2 RP and ECTP23 on what looked like a layer of buried surface hoar 45cm from the surface. While the fracture propogated across the column, the block was resistant to sliding when we tried to pull it off to look at the fracture. The fracture plane was smooth and planer. This buried surface hoar may be very localized. A member of our group did a compression test just 30 feet uphill from us and did not find signs of this buried surface hoar.

Weather varied throughout the days with periods of snow showers broken by periods of sun.