Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3139 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>I dug one pit today, did one ECT test and had full propagation on 21. It seems like skiers are just not enough weight to cause a slide. I wondered today how many more avalanches we would have had recently if there was more sled use in the cottonwoods. No others obvious signs of instability.</p>
HS 155cm. ETCP21 at 33cm on 4F- depth hoar below P hardness slab above. No moisture in facets at failure height in the snowpack; facets on ground and up 15cm were moist. Pit was at 10300,' ESE aspect. I was surprised at still how poor the snowpack looked here given the reasonable depth and it's aspect.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Deep facets are still there, but largely bridged out by a stout slab on top.</p>
Snow surface is variable with protected snow already fairly faceted and slippery to skin through at upper elevations on protected aspects.