Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Slope Angle
- 38°
After skiing the Northwest chute of the Twin Chutes, we sat around in a safe spot to literally watch the mountains fall apart. These avalanches went off like vicious thunderstorm. One of the snowfields fell off into the Northeastern chute. See pic below
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Rapid warming observed on North and Eastern aspects. Hanging snow patches saw the sun well before the terrain we planned on traveling. </p> <p>Shaded northerly aspects in the Stansbury Mountains appeared to have seen attain significant grappel from the storms around the 20th of April. A nice rime crust sat on top of that. Mostly consolidated snow beneath it all, some suncrust layering, but fairly consistent. This appeared to help small point releases gain momentum and travel further distances as warming from above caused the hanging snowfields to "bomb-drop" onto the slopes below. Luckily I think we saw enough heat yesterday that even those northerly slopes got scorched by the end of the day.</p>
Good corn cycle happening on all aspect, besides the 'hot pow' we encountered in the NW chute