Quick report
- Aspect
- Southeast
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Collapsing, Rapid Warming
- Elevation
- 1890 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Many wet loose avalanches noted on east to southerly facing terrain. Some up to near size 2 (large enough to bury a person) in steep sustained terrain (and particularly areas with pronounced transitions or terrain traps). None of these (that we could tell) pried out any lingering soft slabs or transitional wet slabs. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Wet snow issues will persist for the next few days until the next storm. There has not been enough transition to spring weather and therefore the upper 2-3' of snow has various crusts, grains and degrees of cohesion...and avalanches will continue to be possible until there is a proper melt-freeze regime. As such, we noted collapsing in the superficial crust on less cohesive wet grains below (lower elevations). An ECT revealed ECTPs a foot down at a crust/loose wet grains interface. Very easy to see "strong over weak" and/or hear collapsing in the snowpack.</p> <p>That said, timing. is the name of the game in the spring - two skiers had skiied off the summit of Ben Lomond down the headwall by mid-morning.</p> <p>We noted many many natural soft slab avalanche pockets in, below, and south of the Bailey Spring area on east/northeast facing slopes in the mid and upper elevations, well off the ridge-lines and at terrain features. These most likely ran Sunday with the higher winds. </p> <p> </p>
Supportable crusts with clear and cold; then rapidly punchy and unsupportable by late morning.