Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3170 m
- Slope Angle
- 32°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>General poor structure. Hop off your machine and you would sink up to your waist. Upper elevations with wind and it was a much harder slab over the basal facets. Pack is mostly comprised off some type of a faceted grain. </p>
Pulled this little one out, but only on the second pass after undercutting it the first time. Failed on the top of the basal facets. Snowpack was about half as deep as found elsewhere. Test slope on the bank of Trial Lake.
68° E, 9800ft. You can see the shattering of the rime/melt-freeze crust
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Garbage pouring out. Still found a bit of moisture in the basal facets, but it is doing little to heal other than to aid in clumping when squeezed. Where digging today, seemed like less moisture than in other areas in the range. </p> <p>Naturals were seen off the backside of Bald. Nothing large, but all in leeward side of the wind. </p>
Crusty. Some crust may have been from rime, a lot was from melt-freeze and it was very wide spread. It seemed like the higher we went the more prolific the crust was. Shiny and crusty, super fun.