Quick report
- Aspect
- Southeast
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2713 m
On this SE aspect, I got a test result of ECTP28 that failed at the ground. It will take time for this layer to heal. As the snowpack adjusts to the new wieght and the PWL becomes harder to initiate propagation in, the consequence remains high. I would expect other surface instabilities, such as wind slabs, to have the potential to step down into the PWL.
Today our class dug 5 pits, the other 4 pits and results are posted seperately.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Poor structure still exists on all aspects we dug on (SE, SW, E, N, and NE). In 3 out of 5 pits dug we got ECTP or ECTV results. On our SW aspect poor structure still exists but we didn't get a result on the PWL. On our E facing aspect, the area harbored a big wind drift and the Extended Column wasn't isolated down below the PWL, and didn't produce propagation above. </p> <p> </p> <p>I would expect the PWL to begin to gain strength and adjust to the new weight added by the previous two storms. That being said, this layer is still very prominent, weak, and newly loaded.. it will take time to start to gain strength. </p> <p>Where we were, the snowpack seems to be adjusting well to storm snow that fell in the last two days. Multiple ECTN results within our new snow/old snow interface as well as one ECTP6 within the storm snow where a layer of gruapel had pooled. </p>