Quick report
- Aspect
- Southwest
- Red Flags
- Collapsing
- Elevation
- 3048 m
- Slope Angle
- 28°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Collapsing on the ENE aspect of Twin Lakes Pass. Noted only when skinning, and with a heavy foot attempting to solicit a response from the snowpack. Not very widespread, but we never ventured onto terrain steeper than 30 degrees.</p>
All in all low angle terrain holds the best riding conditions from our experience today. Steeper terrain was subject to sloughing, and as a result is owning the thinner snowpack. Plenty of large boulders still protruding from the glades of Twin Lakes Pass so we chose to ride beneath the pass proper, and were rewarded with wonderful turns. East facing pit depth (just behind the Solitude resort signage on Twin Lakes Pass) was 38 inches to the dirt.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>East, North, and NW aspects all hold the sugar under the new snow. Poorly bonded with no signs of healing.</p> <p>New heavy snow now draws the crowds out of their hiding spots, and into new terrain. Wind drifts noted on western aspects with very little noted wind affected snow on the Eastern aspects of TLP.</p>
East facing twin lakes pass riding conditions were excellent. Right side up snow from this storm lay on top of a hard sun affected layer from last weeks high pressure system parked on top of us. New snow density is heavy, but with a very light layer on top. Suspect the top layer to be lake effect precip.
West Facing Grizzly (Black Bess) snowpack approximately 34inches deep with a hard layer 10'' above the dirt. Entire snowpack was very stable, and riding conditions excellent. A few rocks still poking out, but the snow cat run is in from the top.