Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The snow pack is over a meter thick now and is pretty consistent throughout the pack. Notables are the new dense snow below the new cold snow, depth hoar on the ground and facets just above. I felt no collapses nor saw any cracking today.</p>
My pics show light powder up high that has not been wind effected which is not typical for this area and the rimed trees.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>My biggest concern today was a total failure of the entire snow pack in open terrain as well as steep terrain that did not previously slide. All the other layers seem to be pretty well behaved.</p>
In sheltered slopes between 9K and 10K there was a solid 12 inches of light fluffy new snow from yesterday afternoon. Over 10K in exposed terrain quite a bit less about 6 inches, however; it's sitting on top a new dense layer another 6 inches thick. The trees above 10500 are thick with rime. The dense snow from 2 days ago is helping provide a platform, although I still had to dig my sled out at least 6 times today getting up to the top of Duke.