Observations from Elephants Hump

No evidence of instabilities today in this area.  We observed many wind slab and loose dry avalanches that occurred during the storm sometime on Saturday that were partially covered up by additional snow.  We did not find any failures with the new storm snow.  We did several hand pits, CT's, and ECT's and had no failure results in the new or old snow.  2mm surface hoar was found on most aspects and at all elevation bands-below treeline, near treeline, and above treeline.  This layer warrants monitoring for the potential of becoming buried with the next series of storms this week.  Artificial loading PST's that look at the strength of this surface hoar layer failed 3x with very easy results while loading 10cms of snow. 

Snow coverage was good overall with 1-2' of snow at the trailhead at 7800', and 3-4' of snow above 8400'.