Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Noted 4 new size 1&2 natural wind slab releases likely during frontal passage yesterday. Each up high in north to east facing terrain perhaps 12-24" deep. No cracking or collapsing today. New glide avalanche noted and submitted by Muller/Pugliese party....Plenty of wind...but not noting a lot of new wind slabs...wind died off by 330pm..."Poor structure" actually fair - noted in video below. </p>
1st video -Note free air winds channeled by terrain and blowing back up slope t 9800' north facing below Dromedary.
2nd video - composite
Pics:
- Thursday's wind event
- natural wind slabs from Thursday
- PST 50/100 x2 down 60cm onto faceted snow 30cm up from ground. NNW 9800'
- High above Blue Ice - you can see the slightest glide crack up high and more prominent buckled stauchwall below.
- Cool alto-cumulus I believe
Snowpack
2" of new medium density sits above 1cm graupel pellets above a 2" thick hard wind crust (pre-frontal) above the pre-storm near-surface squares.