Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Everything beneath the rain crust is moist. Should freeze back up hopefully and at least make one solid base, but the rain crust will act as a vapor barrier potentially producing a new weak layer higher in the snowpack and more easily triggered potentially. </p>
AIARE Level 1 Observation day.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Everything beneath the rain crust is moist. Should freeze back up hopefully and at least make one solid base, but the rain crust will act as a vapor barrier potentially producing a new weak layer higher in the snowpack and more easily triggered potentially. </p> <p>Still lots of snow available for transport. If our winds pick up we could see wind slabs forming more acitvely. Watch for winds over 12 miles an hour. Wind can transport snow 10x faster than it can fall. </p>
dust on crust out there today. Really 5- 8" of light fluffy snow on top of the rain crust that formed during the first half of the previous storm. Skiing was firm and fast.