Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3018 m
- Slope Angle
- 21°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>We witnessed significant snow transport today with the tracks and trail being blow in quickly.</p> <p>The bottom portion of the snowpack is still weak facets. When the sled dropped through the dense layers, it would sink to the ground in the facets.</p>
Our travels too us along the ridges above Mill Hollow and on to Currant Creek and back. Protected terrain had excellent, deep snow conditions. In open areas, we found soft snow, but significant wind and wind transported snow.
Visibility degraded rapidly after 3pm.
With all the new snow and wind over the past 4 days, we had expected to find avalanches, but only found old remnants of small slides, which appeared to be caused by the large cornices breaking off.
Lots of tracks in steep terrain which had not produced avalanches. We experienced no cracking or collapsing which I had experienced in this region on Sunday.
Our snow pit and ECT still indicate that the PWL is still a concern, but it seems to be getting more stubborn.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>With all the new snow available to transport, wind slabs are the main concern we had.</p> <p>The weak-faceted snow is still untrustworthy. While our ECT did not produce results, we did get results from our ECT in Mill Hollow. I feel it would just take a shallow spot to be able to trigger an avalanche on these facets. </p>
The overnight snow appeared to over delivery in the Currant Creek and Mill Hollow areas. We found around 8" of new snow on top of the storm snow that has falled over the past 4 days. Riding conditions were 5-star+ as long as you avoided the high wind swept ridges.