Upside down storm snow at Pickett

Pic 1: Shallow snow along Burnside Lake Road, where it was new snow on top of dirt in several places.

Pic 2: Even in the trees, the wind was transporting lots of snow - note the flagging along the side of the tree on the left. Wetter snow later in the morning was sticking to tree trunks when earlier it wasn't. Also note the shallowly buried dead tree - lots of freshly buried obstacles today.

Pic 3: Every turn on our descent produced shooting cracks within the storm snow (~18"). We were on low angle terrain, so these didn't displace far. Test slopes before descending produced similar results, and where steeper, cracks displaced farther (camera failure though, so I don't have pictures of that). Mitt pits showed heavier, wetter snow on top of lighter, drier snow. 

Snowfall in the morning was about 1"/hour, but by our departure shortly after noon, it increased to 2"/hour.