Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Dense wind deposited snow on lower density snow created sensitive avalanche conditions. Shooting cracks and multiple remotely triggered avalanches were noted today. </p>
Several examples of remotely triggered slides and video of wind loading on a small slope that had already slid.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Dense wind drifted snow on lower density snow was the main problem today. These slides seemed to run on top of an old crust buried under last weeks snow.</p> <p>Heavy new snow may create avalanche hazzard in wind sheltered areas because of higher density snow sitting on lower density snow. We will see tomorrow.</p>