Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Collapsing while breaking trail/(and collapsing for following skinner) up west bowl. A little cracking, hardly mentionable.</p> <p>We skied a north facing run East Bowl and new snow was manageably sluffing on surface (steeper sections). We skied same run yesterday, today deeper/sluffier (it's all relative, it wasn't deep).</p> <p>We skied a variety of aspects/angles Saturday from Twin lakes pass to solitude ridgeline? Davenport along east bowl to west bowl, and nothing alarming. I've only lived here a year, so pardon if I don't know if that tour has a better name.</p> <p>Today in same locations we noticed a lot of manageable sluffing (wind transported, light density snow) while making turns on crusts on both sides of Emma Ridge/East bowl/west bowl areas. </p> <p>This was not the case yesterday w/ the thinner new snow & we hit a lot of old hard tracks yesterday returning from Emma Ridge. Hardly any today (slightly different fall line today as our car was parked in a different location).</p> <p>Crust under new snow was supportable when skiing, but when skinning poking poles around they punched through easily into faceted/weak snow in many places. </p>
Over the last two days we skied everything from 2 inches on breakable sun crust to excellent powder on supportable smooth. When you have a great ski partner, you can really get stoked on a few inches!
Snowpack
Light density powder, guessing on depth as the wind pre-occupied me and it was being transported, also I am bad w/ #s. Skiing out Emma Ridge to car had the most wind transported snow, from a few inches to a foot blown in.
We skied/skinned almost the same exact places yesterday and ours/others ski tracks/skin tracks appeared mostly covered, wind recycled pow it seemed, as it hadn't snowed that that deep yet.