Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Intense wind loading on the E through N end of the compass, and cracking in wind drifted terrain.</p>
Went form Scott's Peak to No Name then on to S and W Monitor. Scott's was riddled with cornice falls but I did not note any avalanches, No Name did not have any activity either but it looked ripe for a slide. Both S and W Monitor had cornice triggered wind slabs that ran to the flats at the bottom, with crowns in the 1 to 2 foot range, south facing was getting wind scoured to the dirt.
Photos: rapid wind loading on the ridge line, Scott"s with most of it's cornices already gone, damp snow under 9000ft, unmanageable cornices growing fast.
With continued winds and snow would think tomorrow would be verging on High.
Snowpack
The surface of the snow was damp up to about 9000ft this morning, Wind slab and wind crust above that. Raining at Solitude when I left around 3:00pm