Quick report
Photo below: On Mt Allen, thick stubborn windslab formations on top of a hard snow base, overlaid with a few inches of fresh snow.
Below, cornices were sensitive, but did not propagate on the slope below.
A natural sluff off the rocks.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Mostly stable conditions; did not see any cracking; I was not on the most wind-loaded slopes though. I did 4 cuts at 9500 feet, N facing (top of Banana chute). Nothing moving there, but its not very windloaded. I stayed on shaded W, NW and N slopes. Down in the trees at 8600 feet, in steep trees that roll toward a chute, I cut off a couple sluffs that ran a 100 yards. There was more fresh snow than I expected. Nothing major, but enough to keep me cutting a little more, tree to tree, until the slope angle was lower. </p>
Up on Mt Allen, a few inches of fresh covered the thick windslab alternating with hard snow that was there before. Excellent powder in the shaded trees, and still decent powder on west facing aspects with slight sun exposure.