Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Recent natural activity is the biggest red flag right now. I did not observe any new natural activity since yesterday's reported slides. It seems any natural activity was confined to North and East facing slopes that received the most wind loading. The 6-10 inches of storm snow doesn't seem like it is enough weight on it's own to cause any failures on buried persistent weak layers. It took that extra bit of wind load to make anything run. Poor snowpack structure remains anywhere that wasn't stripped by wind or melted off by sun prior to the storm. The storm snow came in warm and it seems well bonded to any sun or wind crusts.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The storm snow on the night of the 25th came with a bit of wind. Yesterday it was obvious that North and East facing slopes were pretty well loaded. Winds were calm both yesterday and today and no new drifts were formed. </p> <p>Today we traveled on upper elevation slopes facing SW, W, and NW. I experienced one collapse on a NW facing slope around 11,400 ft. We covered a good bit of terrain and did not experience any other collapsing or cracking. In areas that are not wind loaded, our buried facets seem to be handling the new load of snow ok. </p>
Snow surface remains excellent with 6-10 inches of fresh.