Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Only minor cracking and no other obvious signs of instability...</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>A slab is gradually growing and getting harder on top of very weak faceted snow that is widespread at upper and mid elevations across the zone.</p> <p>Drifted slopes are the most suspect, and I'm not willing to venture into steep wind exposed terrain right now. Wind slab avalanches initiating in the upper layers could step into old faceted snow and/or the ground.</p>
Nice bottomless (or baseless) in-your-face powder riding conditions. Noted decent settlement of the new snow by afternoon.