Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
Toured around southern Whitefish Range today looking for fresh snow and atypical wind loading along ridgelines
- Found both (see photos)
- Wind slabs were reactive to the weight of a rider on specific terrain features. Easily managed with good travel techniques. Northerly aspects just below ridgeline were scoured clean of recent snow, while other areas held up to 25 cm.
- Small D1 dry loose sloughing on steeps could slide long distances on the crust from last weekend.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 6-15
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Rain Elevation
- n/a
- Recent Snowfall
- 20
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Moderate N-NE winds and below normal temps. S-1 snow for most of the day with occassional breaks by early PM. Short windows of sunshine throughout the day. Winds decreased to single digits by early afternoon.
Snowpack
- 15-30 cm of recent snow resting on top of a 6-8cm crust on northerly aspects above 5500'
- most areas near ridgeline on northerly aspects were scoured from northerly winds last night
- deeper pockets of snow below ridgeline in areas not hammered by winds
- small dry loose releases failing on crust layer were running up to 100' in steep uniform terrain
Avalanche
no new avalanches observed.