Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2438 m
- Slope Angle
- 32°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Abundant evidence of cross-wind loading on higher elevation slopes (above 8500'). A test profile on a NW slope at around 8000' showed the snowpack structure to be a lasagne-style mixture of five or so old crusts sandwiching layers of mixed forms that seem to be gaining density. Stability tests showed a PWL at about 30-45 cm above the ground which seems unlikely to become active until more weight is added by future storms.</p>
Test profile location: 41 22 31 N, 111 56 49 W
Dead Tree knob above upper weather station on Cutler Ridge
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Wind slabs and poor snowpack structure at he higher elevations; avalanche danger rating in these areas considerable; lower and mid elevations slopes - moderate.</p>
Excellent powder conditions, very little sloughing of the light snow on steeper terrain; still feeling the slick rain crust beneath on some turns.