Top of Yodlin 070224

I was rather suprised to find that the new snow from this week was firmly bonded to the old snow that fell in early January and was the surface for almost a month. At 84 cm was the transition and the bond was so solid that I could not kick it, pry it or otherwise seperate the layers. I was not expecteding this to be the condition. Was also suprised to find that there was a suncrust at 13 cm, in fact I missed it at the first go around. This was where we saw much sluffing. The north side of the ridge did not have the crust (of course).

Additionally, I was playing around with my density kit and found that we had 7% moisture snow in the top layer ( 35 g in 500 ml tube = 70/1000 ml or 7/100 or 7% as I figure it). Pretty good for the PNW.

Also the time was 1240, not 2038 as the profile says. I am still having trouble with the time in snowpilot..... oh well.