Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>the storm that came in last night seemed to lay down the snow fairly evenly, and there wasn't much windslabbage on top of the prior windslabbage, which was nice. </p>
We dug a handful of quick hand pits on both north and south facing and though there was some clean shears a foot+ down, it took a fair bit of effort to get them out, and the bond of the new snow to the old seemed pretty good.
We skied a variety of slopes on S, SW, and NW aspects and saw folks ski SE and E facing lines that have all avalanched in the past, but did not today. Have the 'pack's cranky layers been capped?
You could probably hunt down a crackable windslab tomorrow if you tried (I haven't looked at the forecast yet to see what the wind is going to do) and I still wouldn't probably bet on the highest/most exposed lines, but the trend seems good....
Snowpack
the new snow seemed to bond pretty well to the old, which was a mixed bag of crusts and settled powder depending on the elevation/aspect.