Loose Wet
- Alta montaña
- Límite del bosque
- Bajo el límite del bosque
- Probabilidad
- Likely
- Tamaño
- 2
With another night of sweltering temperatures and a warm blanket to help hold in the heat, wet sluff and wet slab avalanches are possible on many steep slopes today. Upper elevation northerly slopes are likely to sluff both with the temperatures and the initially high rain/snow line. Low and particularly mid elevation terrain (even more particularly northwest through north through southeast facing slopes) will also be avalanche prone, where human triggered sluffs will easily gouge into more wet unconsolidated grains a foot or more beneath the surface.
From a risk management perspective, today is classic High Risk Low Reward.
Other concerns for the backcountry traveler -
CORNICES remain a concern with tremendous heating and are large and unruly this year. Give them a wide berth along the ridgelines.
GLIDE CRACKS have been noted in the Cutler Ridge and Ben Lomond area. These glide cracks can sometimes release catastrophically (glide avalanches), pulling out the entire winter's snowpack to the ground, leaving large debris piles. Avoid being beneath these opening glide cracks. photo below of glide cracks -
PERSISTENT WEAK LAYERS formed during the equinox and now buried 3+' appear to have fully healed but still some uncertainty exists with these layers. They were most prominent on north to northwest aspects in the mid-elevations.
