Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>I was concerned that the warm up might make things come unglued but the wet activity was minamul, in the terrain covered.</p>
Skied Cardiff Bowl SE facing, LSB north facing, Hansen's and Cardiac Ridge, no real avalanche activity noted today except for some minor wet activity on the S facing. I did note some slides that occurred during the storm including Cardiac Bowl, the steep roll-overs in Hansen's and some of the steep terrain in between Hansen's and Cardiac Bowl. As for wet activity there was some action on SE facing Cardiac Ridge, and SE facing Cardiac Bowl but nothing to alarming. It seemed like upper Cardiff that has one of the deeper snow-packs around is handling the new load quite well, with all the bigger N, NE facing lines getting skied today with no activity. Tomorrow I would expect more wet activity with warming temps and lots of cold snow still around to heat up.
Photos: Wet activity on SE facing Cardiac Bowl, and Cardiac Ridge, Slides that occurred in Cardiac Bowl, and the lower roll in Hansen's during the storm
Snowpack
The surface snow has dried out and lightened up compared to yesterday, and it's settling out a bit, but breaking trail is still knee deep in some places on the N facing. The S, SE, and SW got damp today and will be crusted in the AM.