Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3078 m
- Slope Angle
- 32°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Biggest red flag to me is always poor snowpack structure. Wind seemed to have effected a few areas along the ridge, although it was a short event. By early afternoon suface was becoming damp from solar radiation.</p>
Side profile of ECT 12 Q1 failure. You can still see the large facets hanging from the bottom of the shear plain.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>8-10 inches of advanced facets everywhere I dug. Weakest interfaced seems to be just below last week storm event. Although the facets lack any real bonding almost to the ground. Dirty layer from Nov becoming less evident where I dug. (photo 1)</p> <p>Slab is becoming harder and is thick enough to pack a punch. My ECT results were very low ECT 4 and ECT 12 with Q1 shears. They lacked the energy to fail drastically, however I was alone and in fairly benign terrain.</p>
2-3 inches of grauple made for excellent turning conditions in low angle trees. still a mixed bag under the new snow creamy in spots and wind hammered in others