Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Rapid Warming
- Elevation
- 2835 m
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Continued wind drifting although less snow available for transport. Plenty of cross-loading, ie - upper Wills Hill remained ok skiing while wind damage waited for the unwary midslope. Again, jumped on plenty of hard and soft wind drifts with no results. Photos of rounded pillows to the lee of mid-elevation sub-ridges and a fat roll below the trees in skier's right West Monitor. Time and warm temps assisting with stabilization.</p> <p>Cornices continue to loom large.</p> <p>Two profiles (NE facing 9400' Monitor Sneak and NW facing 9200' Wills Hill) found the dust stripe down 24-32" with ECTX. No apparent weaknesses noted adjacent to this layering. </p> <p>Clear skies and warm temps might have pushed the wet snow problem toward Moderate on steep sunnies by mid-afternoon....</p>