Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2835 m
- Slope Angle
- 22°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Significant cracking and collapsing at all elevations. We had this occur both on initial ascents and also on 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th tracks up.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>See the video, a very faceted snowpack that with a trigger point and moderately steep slope would easily be able to be triggered. We observed lots of natural slides in Erickson Basin.</p>
There was a significant rain crust under the new snow below 8600'. Overall, a very faceted snowpack Significant cracking and collapsing at all elevations
Danger in the low angle terrain we skied was considerable, but on steeper terrain, it definitely would have been High. In areas we skied twice, we witnessed some significant cracks from the first descent. Had the slope angle been steeper, these most likely would have slide.