Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Elevation
- 2713 m
- Slope Angle
- 23°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The only red flag we discussed was rapid warming when the strong March sun came out; however, this was short lived and was not much of an issue. Other than that we did not see any red flags.</p>
We dug around 1 meter down to see how the new snow was bonding and what the old snow surface looked like. Most obvious is how dirty the recent snow came on. The dirty snow is in face snow, not the crust and was full of dirt decomposing particles.
Under the dirty snow is a crust, and underneath the crust are 1mm rounding facets. Moving down we found a generally rightside up snowpack with an impresively hard slab.
ECTN12 under the crust.
At this point the new snow seems to have bonded well with the old snow.
Overall it was a beautiful, quiet day in the Wasatch, we did not observe signs of instability in the areas that we travelled.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>There was evidence of natural dry loose activity, but it was likely from yesterday. We were suprised by how well bonded the recent snow felt to the snow surface below. We did some ski cutting and pushing on convexities and the snow was locked in.</p>
Generally riding conditions are all time. At low elevation in big cottonwood there was maybe 4" of new snow. Mid and upper elevations had about 7-8" of new snow with some deeper. In many areas there was a firm bed surface underneath the new snow, you could feel it skiing but it wasn't terrible.