Quick report
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Collapsing
Not a whole lot has changed since yesterday except newly formed and reactive wind drifts form the NE winds. I stepped out on one of the drifts at the top of East Hellgate and got a good collapse complete with shooting cracks. The drifts were not widespread in the terrain covered but they are in places that we're not used to due to the wind direction. I think if the slope was steeper the wind slab would have released. Not a huge deal but if you end up pulling one of these wind slabs out in steep radical terrain, the ride would not be pretty.
photos: shooting cracks
Snowpack
Powder on the N, the new snow became damp on S around 11:00am and might have a zipper crust in the am