Quick report
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No current red flags. Snow surface is weak, but not sure we will get enough snow out of the next storm to matter. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Lots of wind damage around the compass. Provoked a few wind loaded areas, and for the most part the wind slabs that came out were only about 3-4" deep, with a portion of one pocket being slightly deeper. For the most part very manageable. See photos below. </p> <p>The NSF down approximately 35-40 cm are not reactive at this point. They are both not all that week, and lacking a slab on top. Looked a lot in areas that had previously slid, likely around the 17th. Although the snowpack was shallower in these areas, it was not much weaker than areas that have not slid. </p>
Snow surface faceting with the last few clear nights and the top 1-2 cm is composed of 1 mm near surface facets. Soft settled powder on sheltered north facing slopes, lots of wind and sun damage around the rest of the compass.