Quick report
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Plenty of wet avalanches from a few days ago, with the activity on solar aspects on Willard Peak matching that of Mount Ogden. Lots has already fallen down, and I suspect the "spring shed" on solars is coming to a close. </p> <p>More noteworthy to me were the numerous natural wet avalanches on high and mid elevation northerly terrain. We saw various D1-D2 slides across the Cutler Headwall from recent days. Timing is everything, of course, but I'm anticipating rising wet avalanche hazard throughout the daily warm-up on polars aspects in coming days. </p> <p>Also kicked off a chunky wet slide on a 40 degree N slope at 7600ft, running up to 6 inches deep on a supportive subsurface crust. Worth keeping that on the bingo card, too. </p> <p>Finally, can't forget about cornices. Many have fallen, but several large cornices remain on the highest ridgelines.</p>
NE facing wet slides on Ben Lomond and Cutler Headwall.
Old activity on Willard Peak solar aspects.
Kicked off this avalanche about 6" deep on supportive subsurface crust, N facing 7600ft, approx 40 degrees.
Snowpack
Damp from the get go before 0800 at low elevations. Some mid elevations zones had a very weak freeze with a thin unsupportive surface crust. Otherwise, pretty standard creamy, to squishy, to sloppy surface along the descent. Need to walk a few hundred yards on pavement to get to connected, skinnable snow all the way up. Given temps this week, I anticipate some bare gaps in the uptrack by the weekend, likely a few in the refrigerator canyon luge as well as the traverse above the hairpin.