Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Saw some large explosive triggered avalanches across the way. Ballroom and the Shoulder at Alta looked to go in the new snow. While Baldy on the snowbird side went very large. Hard to tell if it may have even stepped down into older weaker layers. A shame for the comp. </br> When the sun did poke out things warmed up very fast and got pretty damp. boo </br> The weak layers are still present on northerly aspects though didn't take a look today.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Had very varying results on hasty pits today. Skied toledo chute as it slid 2 days ago and seems to be a safe option. We were planning on skiing toledo bowl right next to the chute on our second run, but got ECTP4 in a hasty pit. On failure we noted a very pronounced collapse in the density inversion from the beginning of the storm on friday. This is likely a bit of an overstatement of the danger as I think I picked a place with some pooled graupel. That being said it was enough to encourage us to ski toledo chute again over the un-slid bowl.</p> <p>Later in the day in Days fork and cardiff, in a couple hand pits I was barely able to observe a fracture. </p> <p>Definitely a lot of spatial variability out there, but the danger is fairly rapidly decreasing.</p>