Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking
- Elevation
- 2926 m
- Slope Angle
- 32°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>on summit ridges no new cornice falls were visible, a couple of sluffs in the new snow on steep east facing slopes, but with 4" of new, certainly no widespread activity. The winds had blown from the NW and were building in more westernly direction continuing to move some snow around. a couple of places at the summit the road was drifted in pockets over a foot deep, but 20' away from that, bare pavement. </p>
wind loading on southern slopes at ridge tops would likely be on dirt or rocks from what we saw
6"+ crust in 2 layers on E-> S-> W slopes and flats, but much thinner in N sheltered areas despite last weeks heat wave
a little snow discussion
Visibility went south on summit by 1:00 PM
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Pockety, visible, and generally easy to manage. Cannot ignore the fact that if you really wanted to find a steep pocket big enough to knock you down and drag you over rocks, cliffs, or into the trees, you could find such an animal, but the clues would be obvious. </p> <p>we can only hope</p>
It has been moved around, but in more sheltered areas thin wind skin to soft settled snow on top of seized up pack made for good skiing in the sheltered areas. Drifts over a 1' deep were scattered about, but not widespead, and again, pockety, as you would expect. loading is further off ridges and in odd side pockets up high.