Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Starting to be less snow available for transport, but drifts are large on the lee sides of ridges and other terrain features.</p>
Photo shows the largest wind slab we were able to provoke, up to 1' deep and 150' wide.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Lots of wind slabs out there. However, was finding them to be a bit shallower than I expected and a bit stubborn. Good part is you may not trigger them, bad part is they may let you get pretty far out on them before releasing. </p> <p>Investigated a high elevation (>10,000) slope that has not slid this year. Structure and stability were good with a depth of over 2 M and a mostly homogenous snowpack. However, adjacent to this slope is a slope that has previously slid with a much shallower snowpack that is likely much different (that investigation will have to wait for another day). Point is, there are getting to be areas of stability, but you have to be doing your homework, know slope history, investigate, etc. to make sure you are not in a thinner zone or somewhere that has previously slid.</p>
Winds have gotten into most everywhere but still some soft settled snow out there.