Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3048 m
Toured up Grizzly Gulch to Twin Lakes Pass to Patsey Marley. Biggest hazzard as mentioned on many reports was the rocks, many hidden just below the surface the entire tour.
60 cm of snow found just below twin lakes pass ridgeline on NE aspect at 10k and a 31 degrees slope. test was ECTN 13, very little propagation.
increased elevation showed depths of 75cm and increasing slabbiness as we go into Patsey Bowl. Also noticed hollowness in rock guardsman and much greater faceting up to 10.5K.
Had a few good turns in Patsey but mostly hidden rocks the were almost inevitably going to make someone's day bad. Be careful, those sharks are hungry and bite.
Shit sandwich snow pack continues on northern aspects, wind scoured on south aspects and suspect setup for when we get some bigger storms.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Crusts, Facets and some wind skins on top</p> <p> </p> <p>Dug a pit at 10K, on a NE 31 degree slope twin lakes pass. It failed ECTN 13 on crust 15 cm above ground. Also found facets below that crust and another very solid crust at ground level. Snow depth just below ridge was 60cm</p> <p> </p> <p>No propagation noted, likely due to crust decomposing </p> <p>some significant wind loading noted below ridges w NE facing </p>