Snowpack

Observation: Skyline

Darce Trotter / Steve CoteSkyline
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Quick report

Red Flags
Recent Avalanches, Poor Snowpack Structure
Red Flags Comment
<p>see Electric Lake Avalanche report</p>

Phone Shot had run during Storm, note stepping down on lookers R side lower down the ridge

this activity occurred above area of last fatality on the Skyline, near Huntington Lake

Activity noted on Skyline Drive south of Fairview Canyon summit

lots of pockets sluffing in low density new snow.

Snowpack

60 cm week total cleared from Miller Flat Interval Board, total pack now 145 cm.  Concerns over buried weak layer confirmed in Electric Lake bowl, large 8-10 mm surface hoar now buried 60 cm deep, and may persist for quite some time.