Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>NSF from January dryspell is capped and preserved. Could be a tricky setup with storms on the way.</p>
Stunning day with a little fresh snow... and the views weren't too bad either :)
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>New snow easily sluffs on sustained, steep, shady slopes</p> <p> </p> <p>Buried and preserved January NSF becomes our new problem child</p>
My ski pole is gobbled up by a combo of ultra-low density snow and growing surface hoar
Wednesday night's storm delivered a nice shot of low density snow, giving the surface a reset, especially in obscure zones where there isn't much traffic or hard old tracks