Quick report
- Red Flags
- Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Numerous collapses today as I moved around and the snow felt like it has changed from just a day ago. </p>
The weak sugary faceted snow that developed in January and February that is now buried under the new snow is quite reactive. With just a few taps from the wrist a column of snow easily fractures on the weak snow and I take this to mean the snow pack is unstable and likely to produce avalanches.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The snow pack just does not seem like a March snow pack with dry weak sugary facets just under the new snow we received recently. Some riders I have visited with commented on how the snow conditions do not feel like March with not a lot of supportability under the their track on some slopes. </p>
Nice cold dry snow on north facing slopes, but any slight change in aspect and the snow conditions went from dry to damp and sticky.