Snowpack

Observation: Grizzly Gulch

LukeSalt Lake
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Quick report

Aspect
Northeast
Red Flags
Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
Elevation
2926 m
Slope Angle
30°
Red Flags Comment
<p>Much the same as the last couple of days, but the amount of snow is problematic as it becomes more cohesive, there are a couple of rotten layers for it to fail on. </p>

Dug a pit NNE about 29/30 degrees right below a subridge so it had some wind loading. Total depth 100 cm, below are pictures of the layers and the shovel shear failure at 38 cm (not where I was expecting, however it was a noticeable hard/ weak layer interface).

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>Lots of new snow for the current situation, it could push you into rocks or trees if it broke out but I would be more worried about anything stepping down into lower layers. </p> <p>There are a number of poor layers in the snowpack any of which could fail fairly easily depending on where you are at, slope steepness, what's under it, etc. as well as the terrible faceted bottom 10cm of the snowpack. </p>

The snow that was falling was mostly nice and fluffy with some bursts of graupelish snow when the wind picked up. Wind relocated snow was on the denser side.