Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Upside down snow and moisture being added to it all day did not bode well for skiing today (that is compaired to yesterday).</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>As above new snow pulling off of old snow.</p> <p>Lucky there was little wind in this location or the day would have been cut short for sure.</p> <p>On the snow quality index I'd give this a 5.3 for today. And that is the index used by people that have real employment aka a job.</p> <p><strong>FORECASTER COMMENTS: Fred's 'real job' status skewed his snow quality rating slightly in my opinion although he was in a less windy location than I was. (See Mineral ob from Trent) The important thing here is that this another observation noting the drastic change in conditions from today compared to yesterday with a noted increase in avalanche danger caused by the 'upside down' snow.</strong></p>
About 3-4" of heavy snow sitting on the good stuff from yesterday. Notice a natural sluff/avalanche cycle at bout 1pm today. The new heavy stuff just got to wet and was pulling off of the light snow from Mon./Tues. Was interesting to watch one run and on the second lap up the main gully and pulled out in a few places. Some time between yesterday and this morning a rather large slide ran from the east facing bowl between Neff's Knobs and the toe came all the way down to the climbing track. Clouds prevented a good look at this but would guess it ran a good 500'.