Quick report
• Below 5000’ the snowpack is entirely wet with the Feb. snowfall resting on very weak facets beneath. If your skis broke through the “trap door” into the facets beneath, ski penetration was almost to the ground (1-2’). • From 5000-6000’ travel is better as the crust formed on Feb 25 is supportable with about 10-20 cm of recent snow on top. This crust thins out by 6200’. We suspect this was likely the height of the freezing level during the Feb 23-24 AR event. • The snowpack on the Canyon floor is melting fast.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 40
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
• Sunny, breezy, and warm with no precipitation. • Winds were light with moderate gusts from the SW on the Canyon floor with moderate to strong SW winds above 6000’. • We broke 50 °F on the Canyon floor this afternoon. Weather stations at 6400’ reached 40 °F.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2 R2
- Type
- HS
- Count
- 2
- Aspect
- S
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 6200 ft
• Observed avalanches running today were limited to D1 wet loose on sunny aspects that involved the top 15 cm of recent snow. One pesky slide knocked my ski down the Shed 8 path for a short distance while I was trying to conduct the crown profile. • Confirmed that there were no slab avalanches in Shed 9 or Shed 7 during the Feb 23/24 cycle. • Confirmed that the previously reported D2 avalanche in Curly on the N face of the Devils Hump was a slab with a crown visible in the start zone near 6000’.