Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing
- Elevation
- 2865 m
- Slope Angle
- 40°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Cracking and small collapses only in pockets steeper than about 38 degrees.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Along steep gully walls, ski cuts were releasing a few sluffs.</p> <p>I didn't poke around the north facing stuff. Every thing else seemed to be sticking to the slopes so far, but another few inches (or wind loading) and it could be a different story. Dug a few hasty pits on steep east facing slopes and although I wasn't getting full propagation, the storm slab is very eager to come popping off the thin layer of weak snow that it is resting on. I imagine this new layer will settle into to place quickly enough.</p> <p>Terrible picture, but you can see the newest layer and the layer below both shearing off fairly cleanly. </p>