Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
- Collapsing
- specific
We had a couple of collapses on southerly-facing slopes. Shooting cracks were confined to northerly and easterly-facing slopes.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- clear
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Recent Snowfall
- 25 to 35
Cold temps throughout the day, but the clear sky and warm sun sure helped. Generally calm winds.
Snowpack
On Southerly facing slopes up to 12,500ft, we observed a couple of collapses, but now shooting cracks. The recent wind-loading and wind-loaded terrain features were our primary concern while traveling through the terrain. Those features appeared to be reactive yesterday with a number of small natural, storms or wind slab, avalanches. However today those same features appeared to be stubborn or unreactive to triggering. We performed one ECT test on a SE slope at 11,500ft with no result. The old crusts buried in the snowpack are helping keep the skis off the ground on southerly-facing slopes and making for some ok skiing. The recent wind affected snow and thicker wind drifts were the main things that decreased ski quality.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2
- Count
- 8
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 12200 ft
The recent avalanche cycle continues to be observed on northerly and easterly-facing slopes, primarily above 11,000ft in elevation, but there have been a few at lower elevations. There were also a number of small wind slabs or storm-related avalanches that ran yesterday on east and south aspects.