Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2987 m
- Slope Angle
- 15°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Red flags were largely not obvious today. We may have felt 1 collapse but not certain.</p>
This was a quick pit just to check snow depth and facets on an east facing slope.
This pit demonstrates what we could feel under our feet - good supportable skiing. Both pits also show a good bit of relatively dense (~1F) snow over facets, which makes for low probability, high consequence conditions.
Although we recorded stability tests in this pit, they can be somewhat difficult to interpret in that it can be difficult to represent collapsing a slab of this strength and depth.
PST result
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>It's now covered by quite a bit of firm dense, supportable snow so could be difficult to trigger but maybe not out of the woods yet, so to speak. We had about 120 cms above the which is still a <a href="https://utahavalanchecenter.org/blog/18820">common depth</a> for avalanches in the Uintas. These can be difficult conditions since many slopes can be ridden without anything bad happening.</p>
Light snow over a supportable to firm base, depending on prior winds. Some west facing slopes still had exposed rocks but coverage was good otherwise.
In some years, snow is thin/rocky and plentiful facets make for trap door ski conditions so this seemed pretty good.