Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No cracking/collapsing. No evidence of recent avalanches. Wind evidence is pretty obvious by the amount of rock showing up high so expect loading. Warming will soon provide the usual mixed bag of sun-affected south slopes and malingering facets on the north. </p>
Great riding/skiing at the moment!
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Lots of new snow on old shallow facets especially on the northern aspects--but certainly not limited to north aspects. </p> <p>The wind has been at work and there will likely be lurking wind slab below ridges, in gullies, and other recessed terrain features.</p>
Very light low density snow that is quickly subsiding/consolidating. Despite the warming (into the teens?) the fluff remains light in all but S/SW aspect where a light melt/freeze crust is forming. On those aspects the new snow was slipping off the old shallow sun-baked snowpack when skinning. This was occurring at the warmest/sunniest part of the day. Moderate wind damage in the open on ridgetops yet most open areas below ridges appeared only lightly affected, albeit with loading and quite a lot of wind-pillows.