Quick report
- Aspect
- West
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3048 m
- Slope Angle
- 25°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>In the west facing location were I looked, there was essentially just lots of weak snow with little in the way of a substantial slab. In areas with more wind load, there is more potential to overload this weak snow. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The wind crust and deposited snow varied widely in depth. In many places the crust was only an inch or so thick. In other areas, there was more deposited snow and I was able to produce some more cracking on steeper rolls, even in relatively protected terrain. This suggest potential to find larger wind slabs in more open areas.</p> <p>Other aspects may vary but in this location, the snow pack was basically half facets, half decomposing new snow from last week. Neither of these were very cohesive. With more snow this will be more problematic The very bottom of the pack in this location consisted of somewhat frozen facets that were somewhat cohesive.</p>
Around Twin Lakes Pass, the snow had been pretty well wind jacked. Even some places in trees that would normally be protected were affected. Along the ridge lines it was far worse.