Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Ski poles would punch all the way through to the ground in many areas. On multiple turns our ski tails punched through to the depth hoar. The snowpack is rotting from the top all the way down to meet the existing buried facets. Gross...</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Things are not near as touchy now. A week of high pressure has relaxed the slab and the faceting has started to weaken the slab also. It should be noted that a local skier who lives very close to Mt Kessler continues to avoid steeper slopes that potentially still have a slab over facets that may fail.</p>
Near surface faceting was prevalent on all non-solar aspects. This faceting has advanced significantly over the last two days almost to the point of sluffing when disturbed. Scattered mid-slope wind crusts made for a few interesting turns. A melt freeze crust was seen on southerly aspects with some patches of damp snow by the afternoon.