Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
- Collapsing
- specific
About 2 feet of top-heavy new snow made for very arduous trail breaking. The persistent slab problem was starting to talk, but I didn't get the sense that the walls were falling down at this elevation. On N to NE slopes, we would get soft collapses and cracks shooting about 20' in facets below the thin crust. Where the crust was a little thicker, I would stomp through the crust with no feedback. Slabs are still quite soft (all Fist hard) and 2 feet deep. There was also cracking in the storm snow at various density changes. There's ALOT of snow for entrainment, so in bigger terrain, any kind of avalanche would grow large enough to bury someone. Tree wells / deep snow suffocation (NARSID) are also a current concern.
Numerous soft/muffled collapses on shady aspects with cracks typically radiating 20 feet. One collapse was notably louder, not sure how far it radiated. These were all on the January facets below thin crusts, 60 cm deep.Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- none
- Rain Elevation
- N/A
- Recent Snowfall
- 60
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Late PM tour: It was snowing over an inch and hour with light winds and poor visibility.
Avalanche
Numerous roof avalanches around Mt. CB. Visibility was too poor to see much avalanche terrain. The few small avalanche slopes that we looked at remained intact.