Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p> Did not observe any natural wet snow issues, but I was able to get the recent snow to sluff and get some shallow wet sluffs to move downhill and start to pile up wet debris.</p>
A few wet snow sluffs that would easily get moving and start to pile up some wet debris. Just a slight change to a more north facing aspect and the new new snow was more dry and did not entrain quite the same wet debris. I think the dry powder like snow will be short lived.
A little disappointing to see the conditions melting this soon, this photo is on the lower part of the Whitney road.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Should see more wet snow issues as the recent snow gets heated up more and becomes more unstable.</p>
Around 8-10" of new snow from the Tuesday storm out in Gold Hill and some decent dry cold snow on high north facing slopes that held up pretty well with the warming temperatures. Other slopes were getting pretty damp and sticky, but did not observe any real wet snow problems. The access to the back country is getting a little harder with much of the lower elevation roads melting out and the snow pack was getting unsupportable on the exit out today.