Quick report
- Cracking
- widespread
Overall I found dry loose avalanches, storm slabs and some wind slabs. Dry loose avalanches seemed to be more widespead and easily triggered. I found cracking in the new snow and triggered storm slabs where I found indicator slopes steep enough to slide. Once I got to about 7,300ft I found wind slabs at ridge lines on north facing aspects. When I had moments of improved visability I could see a few natural crowns and natural dry loose slides on the larger/steeper slopes. Much of the larger terrain features had avalanche debris in it.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 24
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 60
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
While touring I experienced light west winds with moderate gusts. Limited visibility due to cloud coverage and it was lightly snowing throughout the day.
Snowpack
It's deep out there! Today I found over 2ft (60cm) of recent storm snow while traveling in the monument. At 7,200ft on a NW face I found the older rain crust down 53" (135cm). I dug in a few locations and I was not able to find the buried surface hoar that I found last week. Hopefully this weak layer is gone. I was able to find the most recent meft freeze crust down 31" (80cm) in some spots. Overall there are some weaker storm layers within the surface and recent storm snow producing dry loose and storm slab avalanches.