Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>You can find the early season weak sugary layer in a snow pit, but I was encouraged how deep it is buried for this area and did not get real clean snow pit results. I would not be ready to jump into some steep terrain without digging around some more and look for thinner locations where the overlying slab is not as deep. The pre frontal winds were on the increase today and I observed the high peaks with blowing snow. </p>
This is an amazing snow pack for this area with nearly 50" of snow at this location and the weak early season sugary layer is marked with the saw. I was not able to get this weak layer to propagate a crack in this snow pit, but I would want to dig some more pits before feeling comfortable in this area.
I think it has been awhile since this area has had such good snow cover. Normally there are lots of dead and down trees to move around and the skiing can be a little limited.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I was expecting to find a thinner snow pack which is usually the case for the Boundary Creek Drainage, but the coverage is quite good and the buried weak layer was not propagating a fracture where I dug. I would want to spend more time digging around the area before I felt comfortable with the snow pack.</p> <p>The south winds were on the increase today and small shallow wind drifts were developing along exposed ridges.</p>
Great soft snow conditions with a few new inches from the last couple days and some developing stiff wind drifted snow along the windy ridge lines. Overall really nice snow quality and excellent snow coverage even for this generally thin snow zone.