Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2774 m
- Slope Angle
- 24°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Crust facet sandwich with melt and ice forms</p>
With some serious coaxing I got a crack on a wind drift. Higher elevations, around 10,000ft saw a lot more wind transport and deposition. In areas it had that yellowish look from a wind slab growing. The exception with such little snow but it was present.
North facing to South in on picture.
What I was thinking was buried surface hoar. I did see some feathers in areas. My eyes/mind was playing tricks on me with all the different types of grains I saw.
Looking West
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Low, low and zero snow pack. Rocks, logs and other obstacles were prevolant. </p>