Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2804 m
- Slope Angle
- 31°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>It's been a couple weeks since I've dug a pit in the backcountry, and I was surprised and disappointed to still see such a significant weak layer of facets from November/December buried deeper with the new storm snow. We also observed large drifts and cornices along the Northern Park City Ridgeline, those of which we stayed away from. </p>
We found a very stout crust mid snowpack, pencil hardness, 12cm thick. Our two ECT's did not produce results until 25/26 taps, when the layer right below the crust failed. This lead us to believe that this crust is strong enough to prevent failures on the weak snow below it until there is a more significant load, or it is triggered at a spot the crust is thinner.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Same old story. Sugary snow buried 60cm in the snowpack beneath a stout crust. We heard accounts of new snow sluffs running fast and long in steep terrain, but we did not experience this. We also did not encounter any significant wind slabs on this slope, despite being on the leeward aspect.</p>
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