Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Warm temps and warm wind caused the surface snow to become saturated by mid morning. </p>
Conditions were spring like with heavy wet surface snow. Some areas of corn but need a good melt-freeze cycle to shore things up.
1. Loose wet slide 2. Skin spaghetti after transitioning in the wind zone 3. What happens when you break your binding at the top of the windy, needless cirque.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Observed rollerballs and pinwheels as well as loose wet sluffs on east and south facing slopes at upper elevations.</p>
A variety of surface conditions today but anything touched by direct sun was wet. Due north had pockets of less wet snow.