Wind Affected Snow

Joe and I went back out today after an incredibly windy day yesterday (I went to Mt Rose w/Treyson and we had a blast despite the 85mph wind gusts - no kidding, I checked). We decided to ski the north runs off "Sunshine Knob" thinking they'd be the most protected. We only did two runs, one off the SW knob and one off the NE knob. There was a set of tracks in Dick's Crack, but we skied it anyway and then headed right in to the trees. Dean's Dive was windblasted so we went over to the next chute, which wasn't any better until we got into the denser trees. The beautiful weather made up for it a bit though, it was nice just be be out there.

We dug a pit on our climb up from Dick's Crack and found two meters of very dense, consolidated snow, but that same rotten layer (see prior post) on the bottom. But it would take a LOT to get it to go.