Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches
- Elevation
- 2377 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Crowns 1 to 2' deep from Monday? visible at the mid and upper elevations and at least on North through Southeast slopes: but those are the only ones we were looking at. Avalanches appeared wide and connected, but at least the one we dug into ran within the new snow 35 to 40 cm down rather than on the old/new interface surface hoar. Appears to have been a widespread cycle. No evidence of more recent avalanches or current weakness at that layer. no cracking or collapsing in storm or persistent weaknesses</p>
Dug near the surface on north and east facing slopes at 7,700': neither pit had frightening results: CT Hard Q3 within storm snow between graupel layers on east, and ECTX on North. 5-10mm surface hoar 50 cm down in the north facing pit--however inactive- made us curious to dig in further locations. North northwest 8,900 feet revealed no surface hoar and ECTX.
We also dug into the crown of the slide in UFO 3: 9800' east facing. Here the failure plane was 40cm down within the new storm snow, about 8 cm above the old/new interface that preceded this last round of storms. No sign of surface hoar at this location.
Avalanche cycle in the rear-view, and likely healed if all activity was in the new snow. Still, history of widespread surface hoar and it's presence in pit made for some uncertainty (might it be active in just the right spot?) and thus a moderate hazard
Snowpack
Marvelous skiing and easy trail breaking. Newest snow felt (under foot) higher density than the snow in Little Cottowood felt yesterday. No real wind affect in our area. Yet another good storm: Monday's bed surface was Thursday's soft powder.