Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Thought a visit to the east side of the area where the snow pack is typically shallow might be a good opportunity to see what's been going on after a busy weekend. The faceted sugary snow near the ground is still weak, but with a little more than 70" of snow on the ground it's likely getting harder to trigger a deep avalanche. I poked around on some of the terrain that avalanched during December and I still did not feel good about it. I was finding just enough of a slab over some weak faceted snow to feel uncomfortable. The Mill Creek area has a lot of thin rocky terrain where weak faceted sugary snow develops throughout the winter. </p>
The northeast winds that have been fairly constant in the area recently, resulted in some natural wind slab activity, but not sure the timing when these occurred?
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I did not really find much in the way of wind related problems, but the Uintas are a big place and the wind always seems to blow somewhere out here. </p> <p>The deep slab problem has been fairly quiet recently, but the Mill Creek area would be a likely spot to find a weak shallow spot on a slope that has avalanched earlier this winter. The steeper terrain still has that thin rocky look to it.</p>
Still able to find some decent soft settled dense snow on the north aspects and some surface faceting taking place. Not seeing much in the way of wet activity, as my travels today were around the 10,000' elevation. The Uintas typically don't follow the same wet activity as the Wasatch.