Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Rapid Warming
General observations: No red flags to speak of today. The corn cycle began around 9AM. S-facing was very wet and warm shortly after 12 PM. It was hot out there.
Snow quality: No pits, but noted large grained, coarse crystals on a SE facing aspect at 8.7k. ((Photo 1) taken at 8:30, shortly before the corn cycle began).
Also noted dense, settled wind-deposited snow at 9.6k on an E facing aspect (photo 2), and the same on a NE facing aspect.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Observed pockets of hollow, sensitive wind slab on ridge tops at 10k.</p> <p> Observed an abundance of wind drifted snow on lee aspects, i.e. East and Northeast, but did not note any cracking nor collapsing on these slopes. </p>