Observations from Carson Pass

S1 snowfall in the morning that tapered to a mix of fog and light snow/mist by 1030am. Calm winds. Several steep test slopes produced no cracking, but if I tried hard enough I could get very shallow loose dry (almost wet) failures. By noon, warming made roller balls the most common result on test slopes. Still no obvious signs of settlement, except where tree bombs had occured and left surface snow wet and heavy. Snowpack remains without a base - stepping out of skis I immediately sunk to my waist, and probing to ground met very little resistance.

Pic 1: Nice rightside up snowpack, though there was 2-5cm of weaker facets right at the ground. Shovel tilts were planar but not clean around 15cm down, consistent with test slope results.

Pic 2: Very consistent HS of between 110cm and 130cm on sheltered slopes without buried rocks or logs.