Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3231 m
- Slope Angle
- 33°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>In most areas, the new snow had not quite formed a slab, or just barely a slab, and had isolated, limited cracking. The new snow is sitting on varied old snow surfaces of MF crust, wind board, and near-surface facets. Appears to be enough snow to allow for avalanches only where the light wind had stiffened the slab enough, or the buried FCsf are the weakest and undisturbed by old ski tracks or previous wind affect. Increased winds or additional load may tip the scales to make this more of a problem.</p>
A nearby quick pit on a slightly more ENE aspect, same elevation, showed similar HS as above snowpit, similar ECTN 14 on the now buried FCsf, but the basal snow was old snow (had not been cleaned out by early season avalanching), and was ~25cm of fist hard 4mm DHch, and produced ECTP22 result near the top of this layer.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The beginning of a new P. Slab is forming; it appeared to need an element of wind to create the slab (and there wasn't much wind-affected snow today.</p>