Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2957 m
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The danger was easier to see on the surface today; with the wind affected snow it wouldn't be hard to imagine kicking off an avalanche in the right spot. Below the surface on the NW aspect where we dug there were still dry facets, weaker than the slab above. </p>
we still found results with a compression test in the basal facet layer. This snow can be made into a snowball and the crystals "whisper" of rounding but really it still shows dissatisfying structure. After getting an ectx on this layer a gentle pry with the shovel sent all but the bottom ~10 cms sliding into the pit revealing a partially isolated column. The bottom crust layer is a pain to cut fully through with a knotted 3 mm cord. However the facet layer above the crust offered no reaction in either test.
Pictured below were weather conditions from today and a new pile of wind deposited snow.