Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3200 m
- Slope Angle
- 20°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Punchy and hollow over a bed of large faceted crystals. A myriad of crusts, wind loading and storm snow on top of weak October facets.</p>
Early season snowpack inspection of a higher elevation wind loaded NE slope.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The buried October facets are the biggest red flag in the snowpack at the moment.</p>
Snow surface is highly variable, from wind textured loose powder and stiff windboard in the upper elevations to bullet-proof melt freeze crust and rain crust in the lowers. The supportable MFC skied like corn later in the day with the warm temps.