Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The October & November facete layer near the ground was present above 8000 feet on the North and east-facing slopes I traveled on. One of the more notable differences in my travels was the crust below the recent storm snow. Further north, near Timpanogos, nearly an inch of rain was recorded overnight Christmas Eve into early Christmas Day. In places like the upper Cottonwoods, a notable thick crust is present. In the area I traveled today near Cascade Ridge, the crust was thinner roughly 1 inch thick at 9200 feet. This area received 4-6 inches of low-medium density storm snow after Christmas. In the 2 snowpits I dug today, I had stable test results in my Extended Column Tests ECTX x3. </p> <p>First snowpit (snowpilot below) 8300' on an East-Southeast aspect. </p> <p>Second snowpit (snowpilot below) 9200' northeast aspect. </p> <p>Evidence of previous strong winds working their way into mid-elevation terrain and creating isolated drifts. Each drift I came to was unreactive but worth keeping on your radar. </p>
Coverage is 4-10" of low-density snow below 7500 feet on north shady aspects with coverage improving quickly above 8500 feet to more than 2 feet. "Improving" is a relative term here- It's still low tide.