Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Recent avalanches noted on Airplane Peak - see obs.</p>
Trending toward LOW danger. Isolated issues with persistent weak layers as noted above; plus some manageable wet and dry sluffing in classic terrain.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Plenty of wind drifted snow from the past few days but all were welded in. A few natural size 1-1.5 wind pockets noted below Pfeifferhorn and No Name Baldy from a couple days ago. Major contributor to the Airplane Pk naturals from NY Eve.</p> <p>As noted. Must be in high alpine, thin, rocky steep terrain or repeater terrain that's been wind drifted recently. Trending toward low in these departments. </p>
Had a thought to ski into Dry Creek from the AF/LCC ridgeline but south facing terrain moon-raked. Other areas were inexplicably protected and offered good conditions in the alpine.
At mid and lower elevations, snow surfaces starting to weaken.