Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading
- Elevation
- 2926 m
- Slope Angle
- 25°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Avalanche in No-Name bowl, but nothing much to see in monitors. No obvious slides visible from our vantage point.</p> <p>Wind loading and scouring certainly occuring across the open high elevations.</p>
North 9600’, 25°, HS 100cm. 5 mm facets at the base were damp and unreactive; ECTX x 2. Intermediate layers of small facets could pose problem under loading, but again, no test results on these layers.
WSW, 9600’, 33°, HS 90, wind affected. Surprisingly layered. Shovel shear with no alarming results. Two primary planes about 10 cm down and 25 cm down, lower was below a wind slab and might have been small facets. Upper failed with compression more than shear. Further below (9200) the snow was shallow (60cm), soft and decidedly less layered.
Photos: Damp facets, North-facing test pit.
A tale of two ridge lines. And a strong case for trees!
Riming started a couple hundred feet below the ridge line (9600)
With some moderately weak layers mid-pack, much depends on the amount of snow that the Saturday-Sunday storm actually delivers.
Snowpack
Almost untracked blanket of white: fairy tale! Although snow was wind affected near ridge lines, and was loud and sticky in the way that recommends snow-man construction on the track out of Willows, between these elevation extremes the skiing was really quite good.
Some riming up high but, at least in PC ridge line area, I don’t expect riming to make the impermeable layer that impacts future conditions.
See profiles below for details, but not much alarming to note.