Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No cracking or collapsing noted. The gulleys on the NE face below the Ben Lomond summit showed signs of significant cross loading over the past few days. Signs of loose snow avalanches in these gulleys from the last storm was also evident. Wet snow avalanches on steeper upper elevation slopes facing the sun were widespread in the Ben Lomond/Willard/Island Peak cirque.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Relatively recent cross-loading of steeper upper elevation slopes. Obvious enough from a distance to warrant moderate hazard.</p> <p>Many natural wet slides occurring in the steeper upper elevation slopes which faced the sun.</p>
Low and mid-elevations sported a nice frozen crust in the am with the rising sun promising a creamy corn surface to develop on sunny aspects. Above the "dead tree knob" (the prominent knob above the upper weather station with a big dead tree on it), the snow from last Thursday night began to make its appearance and gradually deepened to about 3-4" at just below the upper ridge line. The ridge line to the summit was plastered with a thick coat old and fresh wind slab and crust.