Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No red flags observed today with the quiet weather, the snowpack structure is still something to watch, but my test results were not alarming today. The column of snow only cracked and did not propagate. </p>
Just enough snow to unload and get out of the trailhead with the first few miles of the highway quite thin. Up around Sulphur Campground the snow depth and conditions get much better.
A few minor sluffs of the weakening surface snow observed in the high exposed terrain.
A snow pit to help track the development of the winter thus far.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Kind of felt like you need to be in the right terrain to get the persistent weak layer to collapse. The usual suspects would be; shady, thin and rocky with a slab over the weak layer. I'm still not sure how the x-mas eve rain crust is going to affect the snowpack. </p> <p>Felt like the hazard is trending a little towards low, with the exception of the upper elevation zones.</p>
The snow quality is holding up quite well on the cool shady aspects, with a bit of damp snow lower down. The surface snow has weakened some on the cool north facing slopes, but the riding and turning is very good despite the meager winter thus far.