Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Was a hot day out there and slopes were rapidly getting warmed. Previous signs of windloading were present. </p>
Loose wet on E facing around 9800ft
Loose wet that looks like it happened in the middle of the storm. Also appeared to have stepped down a bit and entrained more snow.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Observed several loose wet on E facing around 9800ft.</p> <p>It is still in the back of my mind. Where I did pull out my probe, a snow depth of 120cm was found. Deep, but could still tickle that layer in the right spot. </p>
New snow depth was dependent upon the aspect and how much the wind had gotten in there. The few places I checked seemed to have about 7-9" of settled new snow. Heating on S-W-E. Only true N held cold snow and held it down to around 7500. Incredible to see how much base was lost at 7600ft during the previous warm up. At upper elevations, ~9600ft, there was simultaneously more snow and less. Signs of wind loading a plenty, but more rocks were popping up.