Quick report
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Once again we had significant collapsing and cracking. As we traveled up the summer road, the road bank was cracking 30M in front of us. A few steeper road cuts sheered cleanly (see photo below for a small example). With a more dense slab, I feel we would have been able to remotely trigger many slopes.</p>
The video of our compression tests pretty much sums up the snowpack. As a slab develops I anticipate we will have very dangerous and tricky avalanche conditions.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Staying in the flats and in the trees we avoided wind-affected terrain so our only concern today was the faceted snowpack. For the shallow and almost fully faceted snowpack, it seems like it is going to be a long time before we will be able to trust any of the areas I have seen over the past 2 days.</p>
6"-8" of new, very light density snow sitting on top of an almost complete faceted snowpack.