Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3139 m
- Slope Angle
- 20°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Simply looking at the pile of junk we have for a snowpack seems terrifying for future loading events. Right now, the average depth at upper elevations (>9500ft) is about 80cm. Most of which is F or 4F sitting on top of a 1F "snirt" layer, all of which rest on top of a F layer of depth hoar and facets. It doesn't appear that there is enough weight to overload this weak layer and make it cranky, Yet.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>We dug a series of pits on ENE- WNW facing slopes. All revealed a similar poor structure and notable snirt layer. The facets and depth hoar at the bottom of the pack are a bit moist right now due to the warmer temps we had experienced over the last 36-48 hours. With the cool temps forecast for the night and tomorrow morning, I imagine they will dry out a bit. Again, it seems that we are simply lacking the weight to create dangerous avalanche conditions in most areas. Of course it is possible to find full depth releases in wind loaded, shallow terrain. We kept it to low angle slopes not connected or adjacent to larger slopes. The skiing was quite good and we enjoyed the day.</p>
The storm produced little bits of snowfall here and there, but over 24 hours it stacked up to some great ankle deep skiing. The older snow had settled and created a good base for some low angle wiggling.