Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
Consistently high winds throughout the day where no snow was sticking to trees, and could see snow actively being transported and loaded onto leeward aspects throughout the compass rose. Visibility decreased to not being able to see table mountain from bagley lakes by 10:30. Fully overcast all day, Previous tracks were noticably filling in throughout the day due to windloading/snowfall. When probing around with a ski pole,12/4 raincrust was anywhere from 30 cm down on wind stripped areas, to +70 cm in windloaded areas. When crossing small test slope windloaded features, snow would come off in chunks failing on the raincrust. Windloaded areas though around bagley lakes and Austin Pass never had stiff boardlike qualities about while skinning.
Avalanche
Bagley lakes, NE, 4392 ft. We witnessed it in the morning and was a natural release. No one caught. D1, 15 ft wide, 4 inch crown