Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>What little snow there is out there, the strong south winds were finding enough loose surface snow to blow around and create some dense wind slabs. Some of these would crack while walking around the exposed ridgelines today. </p>
Fairly typical early season snow conditions on the east side in the Mill Creek area. I did not venture off the road and even then the snow depth is still quite thin.
Just a little more than a foot of snow in this area. The north facing terrain that is in shade, has cold dry faceted snow near the ground. I observed no real alarming test results in this snow pit.
A combination of warm sun and strong winds have created some meager snow conditions along south facing ridge lines in the Mill Creek area.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Plenty of strong winds today that were even getting into the lower areas of the drainages. I would suspect with more wind and snow forecasted, shallow, but sensitive wind slabs would be a concern for tomorrow. </p> <p>There could be some isolated areas where the snow and wind could overload the weak snow pack, but the snow amounts seem to be on the lighter side.</p>
Early season conditions on the east side of the north slope. Just a little more than a foot of snow on the ground with much of the snow pack consisting of weak faceted snow. The slopes that have been getting the warm sun have some damp facets near the ground, but those slopes that are in the shade have dry, cold and more developed weak snow. Not much of slab out there right now, but once it decides to snow this would be a place where avalanches are more likely.