Quick report
- Aspect
- West
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2652 m
- Slope Angle
- 27°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Overall conditions did not seem as stable as they often do this time of year. The snow is quite soft, lacking much in the way of hard layers.</p>
I found a shallowly buried weak layer at the interface of Friday's warm dense snow and last week's colder powder.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I think people could trigger avalanches of recently drifted snow in places. Avalanches could fail on sugary snow that lurks at the Friday storm interface.... </p> <p>There is a buried persistent weak layer that is reactive and shows propagation in extended column tests. </p>
Very droppy, inverted. Even with skis on you would sink through the denser warm snow from Friday into colder softer snow below.