Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Cracking, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Had a couple small collapses with cracking on mellow terrain on the skin track up West Bowl. Also noticed some warming around 11am on the Emmas, Likely not enough to be too much cause for alarm, but had the potential to reactivate a wind slab and create a nice stout, yet still breakable crust for our exit around 4:30. </p>
Around 4pm we saw a lone person setting the skinner up two dogs in upper main days. We waited to make sure he made it to the ridge safely. Playing with fire and getting away with it. This slope was rated Considerable today - "Human triggered avalanches are likely"
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>We stayed away from any avalanche terrain on the north side of the compass. With large avalanches being reported one ridge line away, cracking and collapsing, and a very poor snowpack structure it is just not worth testing these slopes. </p> <p>We dug a quick pit on in sheltered north facing trees. We found very weak snow, but no slab at that location. Where there's slab there's scary conditions. </p>
As anyone out there noticed, a stout rime crust existed above ~7500 and got thinner as we went higher. Treed NW -> W facing slopes were about the only thing we found where the crust was thin enough that the skiing remained fun!