Quick report
- Red Flags
- Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No recent avalanches that I observed today, but the snow pack structure is still a red flag. The mid-pack weak sugary snow is very easy to locate under a couple feet of snow. The places I dug today the slab is slightly denser than the weak faceted snow underneath. I did experience one good rolling collapse as I traveled along the ridge line where recents winds have put a dense wind slab on top of weak sugary snow. </p>
The conditions are slowly improving with each storm and the coverage is quite good for early December. The groomer made the first trip into Whitney last night and the trail was in great shape this morning.
No recent avalanche activity, but a couple pictures of an avalanche cycle from the past weekend. This is a northeast facing slope that gets a lot of heavy wind loading form southerly winds.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The poor snow pack structure does not appear to be going anywhere soon, there is lots of weak faceted snow around the area some of it just a couple feet below the surface. </p>
Monday's little refresher storm delivered about 6" or so around the Whitney area and conditions were mostly nice soft powder and the riding and turning are slowly getting better with each storm.