Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>snow seemed well behaved today. noticed widespred avalanche of the top few inches up the entire north facing part of the ridge to no where. There was no cracking or collapsing observed today. Pic of an entrance into depth hoar bowl shows a staunch wall that is forming from all the avalanche activity along this area. Shrubs and old wild flowers can be seem poking out at the top of the d.h.b. it has ran often this season. Also looking into alexander basin we observed formation of cornices on many of the rolls which sit in the bottom of the basin. The wind was active the past few days..</p>
attached pic of the repeater into depth hoar bowl.
Steep high elevation slopes I have to rate considerable.
mid and lower elevation less pitched (<33 degrees) I'd give moderate (area I traveled today).
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Always in the back of the mind. I've done a bit of probing and found that the snow pack in Millcreek above 8k to be about 2 meters where it has not avalanched. I would hope that this would help with the deep slab issue. However many of the popular ski runs in this area have avalanched and the snow pack is not as robust. Then you get Mark White's ob from today and there you go.</p> <p>snow pits have consistently shown a shear about 15 inches down. A clean shear but after about 14 taps 4 from the elbow.</p>
seemed like snow from the last few days of about 8-12". perhaps 2 new from just yesterday. cold light snow on the surface.