Quick report
- Aspect
- Southeast
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2957 m
- Slope Angle
- 33°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No cracking/collapsing observed. Small sluff off conehead from a skier. Folks were hitting most of the big lines off the PC Ridgeline, W and S Monitor, Dutches, etc without incident. Skied the West Monitor Sneak as I'm not quite as confident in the snowpack as everyone else seemed to be.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Went out to evaluate the current CR/FC combo on solar exposures. Dug a pit on SE @ 9700' and found evidence of poor structure, but the facets are beginning to round and stability tests revealed moderate strength and no propagation. In this particular spot there was not a wind slab on the weaknesses, so that still may behave a little differently. I think we'll turn the corner on this problem relatively soon especially if the wx forecast verifies and we continue to progressively load this layer without a major water event to tip the balance. See attached snowpit for specifics.</p>
New snow was right side up and skiing well.