Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Lots of evidence of earlier slides, but the snowpack seemed to be very healthy in the morning. The biggest of lines were dropped, with sluff management being the only notable concern in the morning. The wind loading on the North facing aspects became substantial by the later afternoon, and forced our retreat.</p>
It was a gorgeous day to check off some bucket list items...
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Holy monster cornices batman! It stayed nice and cold all day, and all the cornices stayed in place. They won't hang up there forever though. I imagine that the next warm day we see will wake these things up.</p> <p>High levels of wind transport to Northerly aspects had built and shed one small natural avy in Granny Chute by 4pm. Surely things just got even touchier through the night. With that and the new snow falling on top, the danger will rise.</p>
Settled powder in the protected cirque with slow and dense sluffs, even in the steeper chutes. Lots of cracking on the wind crusted snow on the ridge. By late afternoon the wind had loaded a 2 to 6 inch layer of snow into the North facing chutes, which naturally triggered next to the boot pack up Granny's around 4pm.