Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3139 m
- Slope Angle
- 28°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Despite new snow and poor structure, no observed activity.</p>
Failures were all near the ground, no failures in on the crust layer in a few sites. It will be interesting to see if these facets serve as the weak layer in future incidents, despite their depth and more stubborn test scores.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Dug down on the North aspect of Sunset Peak ~10,300' to look at the facets on crust that served as the bed surface for the 12/24-12/25 slab activity. Interesting to have no failure on this crust in multiple ECT and CT sites, but did have more stubborn failures on a deeper facet layer (underneath the dirty early-season layer).</p>