Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Windslabs were touchy today after 10:30. I crossed 1 wind loaded gulley at 9:45. Light cracking. Crossed same 9300' n facing gulley @ 11:00 got it to crack, fracture, and move 3'. It seemed to have 3 weaknesses. Old Crustbed-new snow interface, new snow windslab interface, and a windowpane thickness on top density change. I also got a small windslab to avalanche in a ski cut. I thought it same weak layers as above and failed to investigate further, But in hindsight i remember no crust where triggered, so slide could have been surface facets. </p>
Photos top to bottom 1 cracking. 2.layers. 3. Inverted boot pack wind left behind. 4. Intentionally triggered snowboard cut small windslab.5. bigger windslabs/cornices out there
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>There are old wind slabs and there are new wind slabs. The old slabs are solid the new slabs are sensitive. It is going to be difficult to tell the difference between the two. An encounter with an old wind slab may give you false confidence of stability. We're supposed to get a new coat of paint. May be hard to tell where any windslabs are period.</p>
Mostly Bottom feeding on varius crusts n sponge.