Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Trending towards more predictable, but I'm treating the snowpack as guilty proven otherwise.</p>
Broken branches. new trim lines, and powder blasts stretching 40' high on the uphill side of tress suggest, with profound affirmation... this slope produced a very large slide during the Jan. 14th storm cycle.
A few upper elevation south facing terrain got sun kissed and took on heat yesterday.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p> </p> <p>Dormant PWL is quiet now, but shouldn't be ignored, especially if and or when, winter returns from its hiatus.</p>
Portions of the Uintas are fat and white, looking more like mid February rather than late January. I'm slowly stepping onto low angle slopes on the fringes of big terrain, safely nibbling at the edges in terrain I know produced big avalanches during the mid January storm cycle. You're rolling the dice traveling near these giants unless you have an intimate feel for and have been tracking the history of this winters snow.