Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The basal facets are not going anywhere. I backed off a 35 degree north facing slope @8,500' after pole probing (photo below). Theses facets exist to below 7,500 feet but are below a rock solid crust below 8,000' on all aspects.</p> <p>Some isolated wind drifts up to 1' thick and soft slabs about 6-12" thick in places.</p>
No profile today, on many aspects, each storm has become part of the underlaying crust.
Photos below:
1. Isolated soft cracking with a slight bit of movement, none shooting.
2. The slope I backed off of, 1' of hollow facets at the base of a 48" snow pack.
3. Thin, lumpy (almost like moguls) snow pack @7,500', the crust is making it easy to travel.
4. Terrain and wind affect, the surface was a bit thick in this area (8,400'), looking down from photo 2.
Overall a low danger below 8,000', moderate elsewhere with the exception of considerable on upper elevation north aspects above 8,500'.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Mostly on the north 1/4 of the compass above 8,500'. Below that I think the crust is strong enough to support a big load.</p>
HST - 6" both in Fillmore and up high. Some graupel. Some sluffing on slopes approaching 40 degrees, minor but worth noting.