Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3170 m
- Slope Angle
- 29°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Still collapsing all all aspect. Extensive collapsing and cracking on more northerly aspects - scary stuff with cracks running between tree wells in the woods</p>
Similar to a pit on a northwest face, it is incredible just how much faceted material we found in our pit today. The ECT test was pretty reactive and slid out about and inch for the ECTP10. From that result, it only took a little touch from the shovel for the slab to slide off the fracture with a nice smooth shear - that stuff is just waiting to slide. I wouldn't touch anything steeper than 30 degrees on a north aspect, and even subtle rollovers and stuff in the high 20s might be suspect.
Fresh wind scour on the ridge above north woods.
This is one of the weirdest snowpacks I've ever seen. I really expected more big avalanches with the last storm cycle, but they did not come. So now there is a lot of with poor structure waiting to be triggered by something. The snowpack is screaming that it wants to slide, especially on north faces. Be super cautious out there.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The wind has started again overnight and an already unstable snowpack is being reloaded and reworked in more exposed areas closer to ridge lines or on aspects facing into the wind. </p> <p>There are multiple pockets of facets on most aspects. These layers are becoming reactive with new wind loading and relatively dense new snow.</p>
New southerly winds have started reshaping the collection of wind slabs in wind exposed landforms. South faces are crusty, more sheltered areas still have soft fun snow, but already starting to get noticeably more dense than yesterday.