Wet Snow on Jake's Peak

Wet sticky snow existed on NE-E-SE-S-SW aspects up to the summit of Jakes Peak by 10 am this morning. On the more sun exposed E-SE-S-SW aspects the snow is closer to being corn snow, but it still has not gone through enough melt-freeze transitions to become corn.  There is still colder drier snow below the surface wet snow. Ski cuts and kicks on E-SE-S-SW aspects triggered loose wet sluffs, pinwheels, and roller balls that entrained the wet surface snow and the colder drier snow above the rain crust. These entrained up to 15 to 25 cm of snow. Many loose wet avalanches looked like they occurred yesterday afternoon (see this observation). On the more E and NE aspects, deeper less transitioned wet sticky snow existed and ski cuts and kicks triggered large roller balls and pinwheels. Again many other loose wet instabilities looked to have occurred yesterday.  By 11:30 am boot top deep wet sticky snow existed on any sun-exposed slopes and small natural roller balls and pinwheels were starting to occur. 

On the above treeline, W-NW aspects wind scoured surfaces existed.