Snowpack

Observation: Mt Nebo

Darce TrotterProvo
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Quick report

Aspect
Northeast
Red Flags
Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
Elevation
2926 m
Slope Angle
27°
Red Flags Comment
<p>no activity noted today, could see some old debris piles off summit ridge of Mt Nebo, NE facing extreme terrain, cornices built along highest ridgelines</p>

Wind damage E facing North Peak

Snowmobile activity in open NE, E, SE facing bowls

Pack very similar to what I have been watching on Skyline/Wasatch Plateau

ECT test

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>pretty quiet pack, tired looking, but you could still find a pocket or two that could collapse, thinner pack areas, but just about every aspect and slope has been center-punched by machines, even in areas I did not think they could get. Snow is supportable and even with wind crusts, climb what you want. </p> <p>shallow areas exist in this terrain much like the Skyline, one minute you are on a wind slab, next 6" of rotten snow, then thin to thick wind slab, so while thicker areas hold strong snowpack, weak snow still exists, and when buried could be trigger. </p>

Every type of snow surface you can imagine from sastrugi, hard slab, breakable wind and sun crusts, and creamy settled snow in the sheltered N facing trees.  Most of this terrain is exposed and open