Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Like mentioned previously, once the winds began howling in earnest, we stayed low for the rest of the day. However, even below 9,400' there were shallow 2-4" wind slabs that would crack out around your skis. As a result, we stayed in lower angle terrain. However, you could get the shallow slabs moving on any steeper rolls such as road cuts, etc.</p> <p>I would guess there was a natural cycle at the upper elevations; however, its possible that the winds were so strong that the snow was just stripped and blown west to Park City without too much loading. Will find out in the morning. </p> <p>Tough to say what the hazard was, considerable in most places, but could have reached high at upper elevations, tough to say given the inability to see anything.</p>
Looked like about 4" overnight, snow was light density before the winds, but the winds whipped it up everywhere and it was a little upside down, but still skiing well in sheltered areas.