Quick report
Unexpectedly warm and sunny day! Skied steeper solar aspects in the morning before the sun did too much work and worked my way around the compass the rest of the day. Skiing and skinning was generally excellent regardless of aspect or elevation, though solars were getting a bit haggard by 1-2 pm. I cut out a roughly 20' x 20' x 3" panel of wet snow at the top of the steep chute above Osama that slid roughly 200' and entrained a decent amount of surface snow. No other notable instabilities were observed.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 28-32
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- none
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Snowpack
3-6" of new snow on top of a supportable crust on solars; over twice that on sheltered northerlies. Some stiffening/crusting was observed on steeper easterlies later in the day after they went back into the shade. I intentionally avoided steep, sheltered northerlies today due to uncertainty regarding the distribution and sensitivity of weak grains/layers.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2.5 R3
- Aspect
- N
- Elevation
- 5000 ft
Large, seemingly natural slab release with wide propagation across the north side of Table. Didn't see any prior observations, so I would imagine it went last night or this morning.