Quick report
Storm slabs remained reactive above 11k, based on a couple skier triggered slides. I looked for feedback on steep slopes below treeline and couldn't produce any instabilities at the storm interface. However, I ski cut a persistent slab on a rocky, northeast-facing rollover - the first avalanche I've seen in a couple weeks that broke on old weak layers.
No signs of instability other than a few triggered avalanches on steep terrain features.Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- light
- Rain Elevation
- below valley floor
- Recent Snowfall
- 20 to 30
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Light snowfall on and off through the day. About 5 cm of new snow since yesterday, and settled HST ranges from 20 cm near Ohio Pass and 30 cm near ridgetop.
Snowpack
Thin, soft crusts formed yesterday on E to S aspects NTL below today's snowfall.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- WL
- Count
- 7
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 11000 ft
A handful of small (D1) storm slabs ran yesterday on northerly and east aspects N/BTL. Today, we triggered a small storm slab near Rock Chute, (D1, NE, NTL) and another party remotely triggered a larger one in Northwest Bowl (D1.5, NW, NTL). More interestingly, in East Bowl, I ski cut a small persistent slab on a steep rocky rollover; (D1, NE, BTL).