Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>We felt and heard a couple of significant collapses as we walked through the woods at 9300'. The crust bridged my weight until another person or two joined the meadow and it all whumphed below our feet. Ominous. Wind loading was quite active and had already blown some pockets up to 8+" deep by mid morning. Wind slabs starting to form on the PC ridge. In the woods by lower Scott's Backdoor meadows (~9300') there was about a foot of snow, damp to the ground except for some drier faceted snow just below the stout ice crust. </p>
Here's Kate sampling the dust on crust and POV looking towards Scott hill from Tri County. We left around noon with an inch of snow over the crust which was mostly supportable. With the dusting and hardening of crusts, todays conditions were downright enjoyable.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Significant collapses and a stout crust make me wary of what's to come with a large load. </p>