Quick report
-Newer snow is settling and becoming more dense. -Pockets of nice powder with isolated wind slabs and sun crust depending on aspect. No signs of instability today.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 20-25
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- light
- Rain Elevation
- 4000
- Recent Snowfall
- 2
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
light winds out of the SW and dense fog limited visibility to local terrain features.
Snowpack
-Surface snow varied based on aspect. Soft snow on northerly aspects to PP and suncrust on southerly aspects. Small pockets of wind slabs on NW to E aspects on specific terrain features. Unreactive to the weight of rider. -I'd call it "almost" a slab developing above weak layer in upper 40cm of recent snow -Easily identifiable weak, faceted layer with small surface hoar approximately 40-50 cm below surface depending on aspect. See snowpilot. -Rounding crystals and various storm/faceted layers below, especially on southerly aspects.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- SE
- Elevation
- 6000 ft
-Only one small avalanche likely triggered by rider in steep (35+) rollover. Difficult to tell with a few new cm of snow and many recent tracks in the area.