Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing
- Elevation
- 2774 m
- Slope Angle
- 20°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Lots of cracking and collapsing in the area traveled. Winds were blowing at all elevations but winds were really moving snow off of the high ridges and loading NE facing slopes.</p>
Stability tests were failing with medium effort right at the ground in our tests. We could also identify another weak interface about 32cm (12") down. This layer took more effort to fail and failures were not planar or energetic.
Winds moving snow off the ridge of Notch Mountain with some crowns barely visible on the NE face.
Considerable danger in the wind zone, moderate otherwise.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Based on our pit tests failing at the ground.</p>