Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Not a lot of avalanche activity that I observed today, what I did see was sluffing of the new snow as it gouged into the old weak snow surface. I would think with the forecasted stormy weather this week the weak layers will become quite active. </p>
This snow pit in the Gold Hill area was mostly weak snow on top of weak snow and would think with some denser snow and wind this place could see natural avalanches.
The cold low density storm snow easily sluffed on steeper slopes and dug into the old weak snow surface. Once these got going they picked up a little steam and even had their own small powder cloud.
This ridge line typically gets some good cornices, but the winds have been very light recently.
Suprisingly quiet today with very few riders out and about, maybe folks are waiting for more snow which should happen this week?
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Not enough new snow and wind to really get things going, but that should change with more storms on the way. </p>
Cold low density snow with upwards of 10+ inches around the Gold Hill area. Yesterday morning there was 4" at the trailhead and another 4-5" this morning. Conditions are slowly improving with each passing storm, but still lots of hazards to watch out for.