Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall
- Elevation
- 2957 m
Winter, where have you been all winter? Cold, breezy at times, and the alpine terrain was obscured by S1+ snowfall throughout the day. Up to 35cm of storm snow since Monday, with 5cm of new from overnight. Total HS was averaging about 2 meters near tree line (at this same location on this date in 2019 the HS was 420cm). No wind effect to speak of and minimal cornice growth on pass. Pleasantly surprised to find the new snow had bonded well to the old snow surface. Snow profile in sheltered glade on a north facing slope yielded one surprising result below the pencil hard dirty melt freeze crust- CT24 SC down 45cm on 1.5mm rounding facets. No propagation in subsequent tests. No signs of instability in the area. Exited by 13:30.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Well behaved storm snow in locations observed. Up to 35cm of right side up cold snow bonded well to old (dirty) snow surface. This was below the wind zone and the area did not seem to have experienced the strong winds of the last 48 hours. Small sluffs of the most recent 5cm initiated by ski cuts on mid slope breakovers.</p>