Pea Soup

Took an afternoon tour up Mt. Brown to burn off some morning meeting cake (thanks again Emily). Fortunately for the calorie-burning sake, I got to carry an extra 10 lbs of glop per ski for about 1000 feet before giving in. 

• Rain up to 5200 feet where it turned to a wintery mix. The glopping truly began around 4600 feet.
• The snowpack up to that point was wet on the surface and transitioned to moist down to the ground. 
• The rain crust that extends up to roughly 4600 feet began to break down at around 230 pm. 
• At 5400 feet I reached a steeper, south-facing avalanche path that had already gone through a rollerball cycle. I chucked a snowball onto the slope, which gave way to 100s of rollerballs tumbling down. Surprisingly, it did not gain the momentum to entrain snow into an actual wet loose avalanche.
• South-facing terrain at middle elevations held 4 to 5 inches of moist to wet snow above a slick sun crust from Sunday.