Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2926 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>At and above 9,500' snow surface had pockets of wind slabs, with frequent cracking on slopes greater than 30 degrees</p>
Icy layer. A faceted layer existed on top of this. And the 2' above was consolidated snow from the recent storm.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>A week layer 26" below the surface (on top of a icy crust) fractured while preparing shovel shear (STC Q1) and compression tests (CTV). </p> <p>Cracking was seen in multiple locations, but only in wind blown terrain</p>
There was about 6" over skin tracks from yesterday