Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Collapsing, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2835 m
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Very minor, very isolated collapsing. Rollerballs noted on steep cutbanks and steep southerly terrain. Snowpack taking on a bit of solar and heating.</p>
Reynolds main face remotely triggered during the recent natural avalanche cycle. Lingering thinly buried facets on old bed surface did not seem that weak (9400' and below).
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Last week's storm snow has settled into a 50cm-thick slab that rests on a 1cm layer of facets above a crust. In the spot we dug, that layer PWL rests on a 25cm layer of four-finger-plus damp/strengthening facets. NNE pit we dug at 9200' on the looker's-left Reynolds ridge. ECTP23 on that facet/crust layer. </p> <p>Warming temps today generated roller ball activity, especially on roadside slopes. Expect melt-freeze activity to negatively affect sun-baked slopes, especially S and W.</p>
Snow surface slowly weakening plus some small grained SH