Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Not much snow left to transport today but evidence of wind loading previously. Snowpack is generally thin (less then 3ft). Many rain crusts and faceting around these crusts. Most areas of poor structure (below 9700ft) did not have much of a slab on top in the areas we travelled.</p>
Photo below of a foot of bonded graupel in the snowpack. Just thought it was interesting.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Many crossloaded areas and hard slabs left in place by recent winds. Due to the strong nature of the past winds the hard slabs are scattered and not very well connected. Lots of rocky thin areas contributed to pockety nature of slabs.</p>
Supportable wind crusts, some dense powder in the trees.