Quick report
- Aspect
- Southeast
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Elevation
- 2713 m
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Abundant evidence of wind-drifted snow today. A few centimeters of fresh snow is covering much of the previous wind-affected snow. However, it was easy to feel significant differences between west aspects (shallow, 5cm of new snow above a MF crust) and east/south east aspects (30-40cm of new snow). </p> <p>Large pillows and drifts of snow were abundant along ridgetop.</p> <p>Broke ~4 miles of trail today with no cracking or collapsing. Several small steep test slopes did not produce any results. </p> <p>Snow was not overly wind-affected or of poor ski quality, just thicker in the deposition zones and a bit denser. </p> <p>The only concern noted today was a weak interface within the storm snow. Easy CT results and shovel tilt tests produced repeatable failures about 10-20 cm down. </p>