Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2896 m
- Slope Angle
- 28°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Both here and east facing on Guardsman Pass yesterday I noticed two distinct melt freeze crusts with adjacent faceting. These weak crusts will help to provide a bed surface for avalanches once we get snow. The older snow from November seemed to be the weakest here and you could easily push your hand through the lower part of the snowpack. See photo below where I was able to easily remove much of the faceted snow. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Once we have a slab, we will definitely have a persistent slab problem.</p>
Facets over rocks? Very little snow and what is there is largely faceted. In the few spots with enough snow to turn, I guess you could say the facets skied pretty well.