Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Heavy snowfall the last 5 days was my major red flag today. Stuck to low angle slopes.</p>
Not an exciting day today, intentional, stuck to low angle due to wind and load over the last 5 days.
Today may have broke the all-time record for dawn patrol cars in BCC.
My condolences to friends and family of the rider killed near Snowbasin today.
Danger for today based on amount of snow and wind for the last cycle. I assume it is settling out and will fall into the moderate category tomorrow, with the possible exception of south facing aspects with daytime heating (considerable)
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I kept off of steep terrain today in order to let things settle out from yesterdays winds. Danger should decrease with time. </p> <p>Red flag for tomorrow with forecasted warming temps.</p>
Perhaps an inch since I left the area yesterday afternoon.
Snowpack settled out approximately 1-2" overnight in this area. 14-16" siting on the crust where I measured 16-18 yesterday. Settled enough to make a noticeable difference skiing low angle slopes.
Enough wind overnight to mostly fill in yesterday's tracks on USA Bowl.
Wind affect on USA bowl was not as pronounced today, with the exception of the high west facing portion.
Surface hoar on most aspects below the ridgetops. A good coating of hoar frost on most trees this morning. Made for a slippery skintrack as it started to fall of trees midmorning. Distal and up close view in photos, Rally nice feathers with some entrapped dendrites.
All quick columns and ECTs were easy to isolate with no major shears observed. Yesterdays density inversion has settled out a bit.