Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Although I did not observe wind issues in my travels, I could see stronger winds up high blowing lots of new low density snow. The local weather stations were showing winds from a southeast direction. </p>
With a little help the new snow was sluffing on both shady and sunny slopes. Not a big problem, but the snow could stack up in some steeper terrain.
A nice storm for the north slope with some higher density snow early in the storm and ended with some nice cold low density snow. The riding and turning conditions were very nice today with most of the old hard tracks filled in. Just a few bigger stumps and hazards out there, but the coverage is good.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The mid elevation terrain where I traveled was not quite in the wind zone today, but I could see where some old wind drifts were not covered with last nights few inches. These wind drifts were not reactive along the Gold Hill ridge line, just some cracking as the new snow started to slab up a bit. </p> <p>The 12-14" new snow was getting its first hit of sunshine and the east facing slopes this morning were sluffing once the snow got moving.</p>
The storm total looks about 12-14" in the Gold Hill area since Friday with some higher density snow which helped fill in old tracks and last nights few inches of cold low density snow was the icing on the cake. Very nice snow conditions with supportable snow and the coverage is quite good.