Quick report
- Aspect
- Southeast
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2896 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Obvious storm red flags, but localized cracking around skis in new snow and continued poor structure</p>
5 lemons present in this pit, but only saw test results in new snow/old snow interface. .5-2cm graupel from either yesterday afternoon or early stages of this storm seemed to be the weakest link.
Messed around with the horizontal PST after hearing about it at ISSW. This result was less dramatic than the other two, which seems to always be the case when you roll film. Interestingly enough, when we performed the traditional PST, we got Slab Fracture at 50cm.
After the first ECTP - shows depth of new snow soft slab.
Showing slab thickness where ECT was propagating, photo below shows localized cracking
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>We were out early before things got really ugly, but we saw no evidence of deeper layers becoming active again, although I wouldn't be surprised if they did later</p> <p>NSF or Basal facets could wake up tonight. Also, a small slab avalanche has the possibility to step down as the load is concentrated.</p>
New snow was forming a nice soft slab due to crystal type and temp - rimed particles and needles