Quick report
- Aspect
- West
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2987 m
- Slope Angle
- 28°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Localized cracking where wind loading had occurred (N and NE ridges).</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>While we skied more windward aspects today, we saw heavily corniced NW ridges and localized cracking in wind loaded micro terrain. </p> <p>No results on our stability tests today, though we dug in deep snowpack and on WNW, so likely not representative of where this layer is worst (high Norths?). After no failure within the standard 30 taps, we were able to pry out our ECT block, causing it to fail within the basal facets. The whole block was cohesive, leading us to think that propagation propensity (and consequences) would be high if it were to fail. </p>
Dense powder on an older supportable melt freeze crust, storm snow deep enough to provide good skiing.