Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
Took advantage of lift access for one more day and found pleasant riding conditions on various aspects adjacent to WMR today
- 12-14 cm of overnight snow stayed dry at upper elevations throughout the day.
- Surface snow turned moist around 5500', but was still in good shape.
- Small shooting cracks failing on new/old snow interface while skinning at mid and upper elevations in AM.
- Found one recent soft slab crown and was able to intentionally trigger another on steep convex rollovers on northerly aspects. see avalanche tab.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 25-28
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- none
- Rain Elevation
- 4000
- Recent Snowfall
- 13
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
overcast with heavy fog in the AM, transitioned to just overcast. winds were light in AM, however, increased by mid-afternoon with moderate gusts along ridgelines.
Snowpack
- 12-14 cm of new/recent snow on top of a supportable crust on various aspects.
- No signs of wind transported snow overnight or today.
- Moist surface snow around 5500' on northerly aspects by mid afternoon.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- SS
- Count
- 2
- Aspect
- N
- Trigger
- AR
- Elevation
- 6300 ft
Used a small convex rollover to test the stability of recent storm snow. This was about 300' from the other avalanche triggered by a skier. Storm snow was failing on a small layer of facet crystals on the surface of weak crust formed yesterday afternoon.