Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
I took a lap up to the Aeneas wind station for a routine check-up. Overall I found generally stable avalanche conditions.
- A very thick and hard crust blankets the mountains. This crust was roughly 40 cm thick at 7000 feet.
- East winds wreaked havoc on the dusting of snow that fell on Wednesday. I found thin and small slabs of drifted snow in exposed terrain. I stomped on a couple of short test slopes and was able to produce shooting cracks and triggered one small hard slab.
- New snow sluffed easily on north-facing slopes sheltered from the wind. These weren't large enough to bury a mouse in this location, but might be a different story in other parts of the forecast area that received a couple more inches of fresh snow.
- Slide for life conditions are in full effect. Bring your crampons and whippets if you are going for steep objectives.
A corn harvest is T'ed up for the coming days!
I was able to trigger a very small wind slab on a short test slope on a west facing slope at upper elevations.Weather
- Air Temp
- Below Freezing
- Cloud Cover
- clear
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Recent Snowfall
- 5
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Cold air temps and a cold east wind kept surfaces cool at upper elevations until my departure at roughly 2 pm. Surfaces were just begining to get sticky at middle elevations on my exit.
Snowpack
A 40 cm knife hard surface crust exists on west facing slopes at upper elevations. I dug another 2 feet below this crust and the snow was wet.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- HS
- Aspect
- SW
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 7000 ft
Triggered a very small hard slab on a west facing aspect.