Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3139 m
- Slope Angle
- 32°
Both the dirty early season crust layer and the (higher) pencil-hard suspect crust visible.
Sudden Planar failure on isolation, near surface facets sitting on top of pencil crust ~41 cm from the ground.
Less connectivity than expected in the storm slab, no observed step-downs to older layers.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Some (soft) storm slab movement on steep leeward slopes, a little surprised to not see more connectivity in my location (ENE from Catherine's up to Rocky Pt.).</p> <p>Dug a pit ~30ft off the ridge, ENE facing at 10,300 ft and found very weak NSF layer sitting on a pencil-hard crust from November, ~40cm from the ground. This layer caused Sudden Planar ECT results on isolation. </p>