Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>It was likely that there was Natural Wind Slab activity today with the way it was easy to get cracking in the newly formed Wind Slabs. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>See above, and the winds do not appear to be dieing down at the Upper Elevations. </p> <p>In protected areas there reports of Long Running/Deep Loose Dry. </p>
1 finger plus wind slabs were widespread and touchy on the leeward aspects with long shooting and spider-webbing cracks easy to initiate. Significant wind damage was confined to the exposed W through N facing aspects near the ridgelines. Riding was excellent on bottomless powder on the southerlies. It appeared that the southerly aspects had received significant early storm wind settlement in the lower layers of the new snow, and this allowed for the moderate to low angle riding to be based up and acceptable despite the depth of this latest storm.