Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>People skiied/rode everything under the sun. All we noted were plenty of small, natural and human-triggered, dry and damp loose sluffs in the steeper terrain today. Pics below. None looked large enough to bury a person, but plenty big to knock you off your feet in consequential terrain.</p>
Hand pits along the skin track elicited two shears within the storm(s) snow - one 3" down; another 8" down and a good bond to the old snow surface 12" down (melt-freeze crust). The inter/intra storm weaknesses will rapidly stabilize, but there are reports of facets above the crusts in high northerly terrain that been the failure plane in recent (the last two days) avalanches. This deserves further investigation; otherwise lacking wind, loose wet and loose wet will be the primary concerns.
Snowpack
More sun than expected, but you'll find excellent skiing and riding on due north facing over the next couple of days. Off aspects went off and will have a breakable crust on Wednesday.