Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Only very isolated cracking in wind drifted snow with kick turn tests, the top 25cm near Lanham Col
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- none
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Light snowfall around 2pm, turning moderate at times.
Snowpack
Great powder conditions. The storm snow felt somewhat settled out. Still, trail breaking in the open was knee deep.
On a SE aspect at 5,800ft we found an HS of 265cm. Tilt tests were unreactive, Compression Test Mod, SP down 105cm on small grained rounded facets above a thin sun crust from 2/24. PST 35/105 (End) here. ECTX, but a 'Deep ECT' did propagate with hard force.
The Early February Crust was generally down about 100cm-115cm. We found small faceted grains above the EFC on W-N-E aspects above ~5,600ft, which is a deep, weak structure.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2
- Count
- 2
- Aspect
- S
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 5600 ft
Was saw at least 4 large avalanches that likely occurred between Feb 28-29.