Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Began skinning from Solitude Entry #2 around 3pm, during a break in today's storm. Usually encounter hurricane force winds on the ridgeline, but it was quite calm for a few hours.</p> <p> </p> <p>It snowed all day today. For the 2h 45m I was outside, it didn't snow for 30 minutes.</p> <p> </p> <p>The southerly aspects along the willow knob rigdeline were predictibly, windscoured to smithereens.</p> <p>On Northerly side, many windslab humps (about 7-15cm, or 0.25-0.50ft) in height were deposited throughout the dense trees. The biggest accumulations on the steep, convex rollovers. No cornice formations observed just yet - tomorrow, probably.</p> <p> </p> <p>Upper sections presumably exposed to the sun felt like "Dust on crust"</p> <p>Treed sections were soft, with plenty of wind drifted snow strewn about a surface of weak snow.</p> <p> </p> <p>A ski cut prior to approaching the rollover produced fairly benign sluffs. Neil's is fairly low angle, so you will get different results on something steeper. especially after tonights loading event. </p> <p> </p> <p>By the time I finished my descent (around 5pm), the sun had set. The pines and aspens quaked loudly & shedded the new snowfall from tonights storm. Observed plenty of snow being transported back in the NW direction. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>