Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Wind loading was the biggest red flag today but easily avoided. </p>
Snow is melting fast at lower elevations making sled access more difficult in Weber canyon.
The biggest issue to be concerned with will be newly formed wind slabs. Upper elevation alpine terrain has been experiencing moderate to strong winds, creating sensitive wind slabs. I was finding that the new snow was bonding well with the old snow surface but there is weak interface within the new snow on a slight density inversion a cm or so above the old snow surface. That instability should settle out quickly.
Moderate danger tomorrow in the wind zone, low otherwise.
Snowpack
About 2" of settled medium density snow on top of the melt freeze crust.