Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
Observed lots of wind transport, cracking in the snow, and triggered a soft storm/wind slab avalanche. Cracking and in isolated locations shooting cracks in wind affected terrain.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 26
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- intense
- Recent Snowfall
- 15
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Lots of snowfall and significant wind transport. In locations exposed to the wind our skin tracks were mostly filling in every 1 hour due to wind loading and new snow.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R2
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- N
- Trigger
- AR
- Elevation
- 10100 ft
Triggered a D1 storm/wind slab on a NNE aspect. We think storm snow combined with wind deposited snow formed the slab on top of snow from earlier in the storm cycle.