Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2865 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>TESTS: CT9 ... ECTP11 breaking at what is likely the Christmas storm interface. (Tests were performed on Tuesday, Jan. 9 before this area of the Uintas saw new snow overnight or today (Jan. 10). Our pit was due north @ 9,400 ft with a slope angle of 30 degrees). </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>There are facets by the shovelful out there. Pretty amazing stuff, and hard to miss. There's not a huge, cohesive slab where we were, but new loading from the recent storm could definitely tip the scales, especially in steeper terrain. </p> <p>Basal facets (bottom 1 to 2'') were almost rock hard. </p> <p>There is definitely new snow for transport right now. If the new snow isn't enough to tip the scales, the extra wind deposited snow could be for sure. </p>
Hard, unbreakable wind crust on the ridge near Pt. 9501, just south of Ridge Yurt. Powder on the lee side of the ridge and in the trees.