24 Hour Snow: 0" 72 Hour Snow: 0" Season Total Snow: 80" Depth at Gold Basin: 39"

Under a few high clouds, winds from the west northwest are mostly light with moderate speeds along ridge tops. Temperatures are in the single digits. Look for increasing clouds later today ahead of an open wave trough dropping down from the Pacific Northwest. Westerly winds should remain mostly light with high temperatures climbing into the upper 20's at 10,000'. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a chance for snow developing on Thursday. Points north will be favored and this looks like all we're going to see for awhile.

It was a glorious day in the mountains yesterday with mostly sunny skies, cold temperatures, and light northwesterly winds. Last week's storm has greatly improved the look of things but conditions are still a bit thin on southerly aspects. Wind has affected the snow surface a little bit in open areas, but there is still plenty of soft snow out there. Southerly aspects took some sun and grew damp by afternoon so there are likely to be some lightly crusted surfaces out there. I did not observe any cracking, collapsing, or whumphing in the snowpack yesterday, but stability tests on northerly aspects remained reactive. For more on my travels over to Dark Canyon, see my full observation here.