Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
- Collapsing
- specific
In this area, the snowpack feels like it’s close to its breaking point, but more often than not, slabs still lack the cohesion and thickness to cause more than relatively small and pockety releases, which are still sensitive to human triggers. Next week's storm will be exciting for this snowpack!
A handful of small collapses (~10 to 25 feet radius) on northerly aspects, mostly near treeline in Redwell. One below treeline on a collapsing crust (flat slope). Cracking in fresh wind slabs on high southerlies.Weather
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Northeast winds last night drifted snow in exposed areas.
Snowpack
In sheltered terrain at 11,500', there's 35 cm of settled storm snow over the Feb 11 interface (either facets or thin, hard wind crusts over facets) on northerlies. Last night's NE winds eroded slabs from exposed windward start zones and formed isolated wind slabs on southerlies, 1' to 2' thick, that produced cracking this morning.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- L
- Count
- 10
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 11800 ft
Dozens of harmless dry loose avalanches ran during yesterday's snowfall or this morning's solar. A few small wind slabs ran last night from increased northerly winds, along with a few small slabs on the Feb 11 interface (our new gen persisent slab). We skier triggered a few slabs breaking on the Feb 11 interface on small features, very small in size.