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Observation: West Scotties

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Aspect
West
Red Flags
Recent Avalanches, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
Elevation
2713 m

Putting the ski track in up west Scottie's this afternoon (04/01) I noticed some instability within the storm snow with cracking propagating from the skis.

This storm has gained us around 14" of right side up snow!

We performed an ECT on a 35 degree slope W facing at 8900ft on West Scotties. We got results of ECTP1 10" down. The propagation and shear was clean on what appeared to be a small faceted layer within the storm snow.

We changed our plans accordingly and skied out to the car.

see attached photo for a picture of the shear.