Quick report
- Aspect
- Southwest
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2560 m
Cloudy skies all day with a short period of BKN (50% covered) around 4pm. No wind at all. Plenty of tracks and people up Mill D!
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>We dug a pit at 8400' on a SW slope (wrong date on the snowpilot image) and got a CT8 on a thin layer of near-surface facets (possibly due to radiation recrystallization as this slope receives a bit of sun during the day)/surface hoar at the new snow-old snow interface. Despite a noticeable collapse, it did not propagate in the ECT (ECTN18), either because the slab was too weak or the weak layer was not continuous enough. I suspect the former, as we had no less than 5 collapses in the few hundred feet of trail breaking we did on a nearby flat slope, including one that propagated to at least 50 feet away. This showed me that southerly slopes are touchy even at lower elevations, and a lot of places that are normally safe to ski during a PWL might not be.</p>