White Pine3/30/2022
We got about 8 new inches of snow/graupel yesterday. We were planning on upper Cardiac but plans change and we decided to go up White Pine to Red Baldy. The wind was cranking from the NW in the morning hours into the afternoon. We started walking up under the Rock and Roll chutes first, got almost up to the rock bands and decided we might be making a mistake. It was all fine until we got under the chutes and realized that we were getting into a slab on top of bottomless roller balls scenario (graupel) bailed on that and went higher and more N/NE facing which didn’t have a slab just loose graupel. Snow above 9500ft stayed dry up until our exit at 2 pm. I would expect any lingering wind slabs to settle out by tomorrow but it’s high N or nothing also. Gonna try my luck in the Lasals this weekend, I’ll let you know how it turns out.
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