Incline Lake Peak Observations

Cold temperatures and a stiff wind was found this morning on Incline Lake Peak.  Nicely settled storm snow in below treeline areas had shin deep ski pen.  Snow surface conditions changed as I approached more open near treeline terrain with some wind texture and wind scoured surfaces.  Areas of large cornices exist along the upper ridgeline, but are easy to go around and avoid.  Wind slabs were still present with some small cracking, but did not seem as reactive as seen throughout the forecast area yesterday.  The winds were gusty at times today, but variable with overall light blowing snow.  Some clearing did occur in the late morning, but overall the sky had full clouds with pretty flat light conditions.  I did find some surface hoar on the upper portion of the peak that appeared to have some riming.  It was hard to make out in the flat light, but distribution seemed to be fairly isolated to pockets on the upper northerly aspects of the peak.  In one area it was 6mm in size and if any had been recently buried by current blowing snow, it did not show any signs of instabilities while moving through this terrain.