Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
- Collapsing
- specific
We primarily traveled on southerly-facing slopes with no avalanche concerns encountered. We crossed a couple of wind wales on easterly to northeasterly facing terrain features that produced collapses and shooting cracks.
Weather
- Air Temp
- Warm, above freezing
- Cloud Cover
- clear
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
Inverted temperatures in the morning, with cold single-digit temps in the valley and warm, near-freezing temps in the alpine. Warm ~40F temps during the day with a clear sky and clam winds.
Snowpack
We primarily traveled on southerly-facing slopes with no avalanche concerns. The thick snow and old buried crusts made for some okay turns and kept the skis off the ground where the snow height was 35cm+. On SE-facing slopes up to 11,300ft the upper 5cm to 10cm of the snowpack was moist and will form a new crust.
We crossed a couple of wind wales on easterly to northeasterly facing terrain features that produced collapses and shooting cracks.