Quick report
At this elevation near valley floor, meltwater from the past week has significantly reduced the chances of triggering a persistent slab now that it has refrozen into several ice lenses within the snowpack. 4" of new snow wasn't enough to cause any notable storm instabilities where I was; I could see a small avalanche in the new snow that ran off of Whetstone.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- none
- Rain Elevation
- N/A
- Recent Snowfall
- 10
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Light northerly breeze, 4" new. S-1.
Snowpack
NE aspect, 9500', 25* slope angle fed by a flat slope above: Meltwater from the past week has refrozen into a handful of ice lenses throughout the slab and at the slab/WL interface. The most prominent lenses (~5mm, ice hard) are at the 2/17 and 2/11 interfaces. Below that, the facets have remained dry and cohesionless (F). ECTP30 results.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- U
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 12200 ft
Small avalanche off of M-Face on Whetstone, either a sluff or soft slab in the new snow.