Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Generally, the snowpack is under a meter in most areas, with a strong cohesive slab ranging from 1F to P hardness in most places, sitting atop about 30 cm of weak faceted snow below.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Like many other areas across the state, a slab 2-5ft deep sits above 20-40cm of weak sugary, faceted snow, that once triggered can produce large and dangerous avalanches. This was formed by early preseason snow that sat around and rotted, then as the winter switch turned on the slab formed, all the recipe is missing right now is a trigger, and that is usually us. Although they are becoming harder to trigger, the consequences remain the same if we do.</p>
Surface conditions varied from firm windpack, to soft dense powder in sheltered terrain. The winds sure do put in a good effort in the Tushars and many of the West faces are stripped to the rock. Find sheltered low-angle terrain out of the wind zone and that's the ticket for good skiing and riding right now!