Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Elevation
- 3048 m
For Wednesday: Isolated concerns include graupel pooling in aprons below steep chutes (Wolverine perhaps) with isolated pockets of wind drifts found in these mid-slope areas as well. These pockets may still be at play on Wednesday. Wet loose sluffs may be expected with sun and heating.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Many northerly starting zones scoured. Despite the unyielding winds, I found no evidence of reactive wind slabs on any aspect. I expected to find drifts well down below standard loading zones and channeled onto a variety of aspects but nothing moved or cracked out. Most of the new snow was high density and graupel..... </p> <p>The pre-frontal inch of snow came in warm and bonded well to the warm corrugated crusts on east>south>west aspects. 2-3" of large diameter graupel fell during and just after frontal passage with an inch of high density snow to follow. Photo.</p> <p>On northerly aspects, tests elicited shear planes above and below a thin crust (see profile), but no problematic facets or weak layer concerns me here. </p> <p> </p> <p>Pic 1, 2 - shallow wind "slab" over graupel with good bond to crust</p> <p>Pic 3 - photo of profiled northerly aspect in catherine's</p>
Fast and surfy graupel skiing. Excellent, especially on lower angle terrain to keep from bottoming out on the old crusts.