Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2713 m
- Slope Angle
- 25°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Finally starting to put some snow between the surface and the Dry January Layer (DJL) of facets but still < 1m in this location.</p>
The most interesting thing about this profile was the facet crust sandwich in the upper portion of the snowpack. I'm not totally sure the sequence of events but it seems like the first storm this week maybe created a rain crust at about 120cm. Prior to the Thursday-Friday storm facets developed and were capped by a crust at about 130cm. It seems like an uncommon set up.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Interesting mix of crusts and facets from snow this past week where high elevation rain created a melt-freeze crust that could isolate us to some unknown degree from the DJL. </p>
Good skiing on north facing runs. Sun slightly affected some areas.