Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No cracking or collapsing. Stayed off all steeper slopes. Snowmobilers testing steeper slopes in area with no results.</p>
A few bad photos of some avalanches in the area. 1st- Red Creek Mountain, NE, 10600ft, looks big. 2nd- Above Mill Hollow Res. E facing, 9600ft., 3rd- Wolf Creek Peak E facing, 9950 ft. (hard to make out filled in shallow crown below cornice and than deeper where it stepped down mid slope)
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Didn't dig around much as we stayed on benign slopes. One pit on southerly aspect at 9700ft showed ECTP 12 SP at 35cms from ground. Consistent results on same layer. HS = 105cms. Strong bridging over weak snow with wind packed snow up to pencil hardness. Ski pen. only 3-4cms. </p> <p>Some snow transport on to slopes lee to the southerly winds. Wind slab danger minimal in this area, concern would be for wind slab triggering larger avalanche.</p>
All aspects dense loose with some wind crusts exposed. Southerly aspects has not become wet yet with wind and cloud keeping things cool at upper els.