Quick report
- Aspect
- West
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2591 m
- Slope Angle
- 22°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No obvious red flags except poor snow structure and consistent propagating failures in snowpit tests... and, periods of heavy snowfall.</p>
There are probably some areas with dangerous avalanche conditions, especially where the snow is shallow and weak sugary snow near the ground is loose and sugary. People could trigger dangerous avalanches on slopes with poor snow structure, a slab of stiffer more cohesive snow resting on loose sugary snow grains in a buried persistent weak layer.
Historically, avalanche accidents are common on the first nice day after a stormy period, especially if it's a weekend day, there's great powder in the backcountry, and dangerous conditions exist... People should keep this history in mind as they make critical terrain decisions tomorrow. Super nice powder can cause the best of us to make poor choices. Tomorrow and this weekend it'll be best to take a conservative approach in the backcountry since dangerous conditions exist in places.
Snowpack
Super nice fluffy powder conditions...