Upper Elevation North Faces

Any pontifications / predictions / experience on north face snow conditions 5500 + right now?

Pete, why not high south facing corn? Ah the glory!!!

North faces...

I've found during events like this that there will be a combination of powder and crust where sun affected, even in slightest and corn where more sun has persisted. Slop will be at lower elevations, the depth depending on how much snow this last event dished out over the crust layers. But this is just all a guess. I'll be up this weekend to see how things are...

Pete, why not high south facing corn? Ah the glory!!!

I'll be up this weekend to see how things are...

Won't we all? Careful up there !

Due to the number of variables, and recent weather, I'd hesitate to make any predictions. You probably have to go to a specific slope and evaluate the conditions at hand. As Jason suggests, with high freezing levels, this might be a great weekend for corn snow.

What we have forming the crust right now is thermal, not solar, effects. I have found rock solid crusts up to 6200 ft on northern aspects in the north Cascades - Baker environs. I have also found very little resembling corn on the sun-exposed slopes, although there seems to be a skiable window as the crust softens and just before the unconsildated snow below the softening crust turns to mush. I think the corn making process is farther along the more south you travel.

What we have forming the crust right now is thermal, not solar, effects.  I have found rock solid crusts up to 6200 ft on northern aspects in the north Cascades - Baker environs.  I have also found very little resembling corn on the sun-exposed slopes, although there seems to be a skiable window as the crust softens and just before the unconsildated snow below the softening crust turns to mush. I think the corn making process is farther along the more south you travel.

Come on Tim you expect us to believe that :we all know you know where the powder is!
Thanks for the report.