Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
We took two laps on a treed NE face with an average gradient of <30. On the third lap my partner witnessed a "massive collapse" of the snowpack as i rode past him. I finished my line unawares only to hear about it on my radio. He was at an island of safety and in general our overall safety protocols of keeping to low angle slopes with tree coverage and never exposing both parties kept this from being an accident/avalanche report
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Early season facets 10" deep at the bottom of a 180 cm snowpack. Our snow pit showed no results on this layer. Another layer mid pack at 50 cm from the ground held buried facets. Nothing triggered from isolated column tests on 2 different pits dug </p> <p>Southerlies drifting significant snow throughout the morning and into afternoon. Skin track getting filled in. </p>