Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Not much in the way of red flags in my travels today, the winds stayed well behaved and did not observe any wind loading along the ridge lines. Only one small collapse and the snow pack felt more relaxed than a day or two ago. </p>
The exposed terrain is pretty wind worked from north winds, but lose some elevation and seek out protected places and there is some nice soft snow.
Took a few photos of some upper elevation starting zones that avalanched during the holiday period. These places look a little rocky and thin and could still have some weak sugary snow left behind.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Felt like a status quo day with no big red flags, but the snowpack structure is still priority and going into a stormy weekend the avalanche conditions should ramp back up.</p>
Good supportable snow at the mid and upper elevations while there is still some trap door conditions lower down. The sunny aspects had a bit of a crust in places, but not bad and nice dense settled soft snow in protected areas. The winds have worked over a lot of the exposed terrain.