Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The east wind caused some drifting along the upper elevation ridges but it did not extend too far below the ridge. We could find some localized wind slabs that would crack out but they were quite small where we were. I could tell that on other slopes they could have been much more of a problem.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The main problem is fresh wind slabs within the new snow. The snow without wind seems to be staying in place quite well. There is about 7 inches of fresh snow from the past few days and it's quite low density so there's a lot of snow to blow around. It does not take much wind to be a problem.</p> <p>Since the wind seemed to drop as the main part of the system arrived on a southwesterly flow, tomorrow the fresh wind slabs from today will be concealed beneath fresh snow with less wind. Depending on what happens overnight, if the wind picks up from the southwest, then we will have two episodes of wind slabs from different directions. Generally they are soft and relatively easy to deal with unless you are in high consequence terrain.</p>
There was only couple inches of new snow today but it fell on top of about 7 inches from a couple days ago so the turning conditions were quite good.