Signs of small wind slabs.

We toured Incline Peak and points to the NW this morning to have a look at the new snowfall and newly formed wind slabs. New snow amounts in this area were around 3-4 inches with areas of wind slab up to 18 inches deep. We did not encounter any areas where these wind slabs extended very far downslope. Wind slabs showed some reactivity to the weight of a skier but propagation was not very wide at less than 6 feet max. Wind slabs were formed from drifted new snow 4F+ hardness over F+ hardness at the old/new snow interface.

Incoming solar radiation was significant but air temperatures stayed below freezing in this area today. We triggered only very minor roller balls in the new snow on a SE aspect at around 9,600' at midday. Upon returning to our lowest elevation of travel today at around 8,400' at 1 pm, the snow surface had experienced little to no surface melt.

A quick look at the weather stations this afternoon suggests that the freezing level was around 7,600' to 7,800' today in the northern portion of the forecast area and around 8,000' to 8,300' today in the southern portion of the forecast area.