Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Wind loading from south winds near ridge lines. Snowpack structure much worse in this area than I have seen elsewhere in the zone.</p>
Found some neat frost crystals in the forest, near some probable vents from subterranean Karst formations....
There were numerous natural avalanches in upper Providence Canyon during Monday's intense storm. This is the ridgetop crown of one of several broad avalanches which ran off Milleville Peak's long ridge line.. And a small crown visible above my sled off the east ridge of Providence Peak...
Much shallower and weaker snow than I've been looking at in the Central Bear River Range. Fist-hard facets capped by two crusts with facets between and near surface facets developing in the upper pack to boot....
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>You might trigger a dangerous avalanche on a very steep slope in the Providence Canyon Area.. Currently, due to recent sublimation, the slab lacks cohesiveness and energy. ECTs showed no propagation in today's tests, with the slab mostly falling apart before a compression failure occurred and shear failures not propagating across the slab bases...</p> <p>Fresh wind slabs were developing today in terrain exposed to drifting from south winds...</p>
Sugary and faceted in the upper layers and faceted in the basal layers (fist hardness). Much less new snow from Sunday/Monday and total snow than in the central part of the range...