Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>We felt multiple collapses while skinning up a low angle west facing slope. The shake was enough to kill the desire to get on anything steeper.</p>
Boot penetration was to the hip when stepping off the beaten path. Travel proved difficult for snow machines as the track would sink into the underlying facets and fail to gain traction.
Jumping in as the cloud ceiling rises just enough to provide decent visibility.
Snowpack
Most locations where we traveled today had about 10" of new storm snow. The new snow sat on a 1-2" wind crust and, in places that didnt have the wind crust, it was new snow on facets. Trail breaking was easy if you could manage to stay in areas that held the wind crust.