Quick report
Conditions were almost white-out, which made it difficult to see signs of instability, if there were any below my sled.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Rain Elevation
- N/A
- Recent Snowfall
- 15 to 20
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Light to moderate snowfall rates throughout the day. On Scarp Ridge at 12,000', there was generally moderate transport from SW winds with brief strong gusts and intense wind transport . Lighter snow transport near treeline.
Snowpack
Dug two pits around 11,000' on slopes with modest amounts of previous windloading, on east and northeast aspects. The most recent slabs are about 75 cm thick, averaging 4F hard. I got hard, non-propagating ECT results in both pits on small grained facets near the 3/23 interface. The test result and facets looked a little more problematic above the crust on the east facing pit, though neither produced particularly alarming results.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 12200 ft
One large D2+ debris pile below the northeast side of Owen that ran today. Couldn't see the start zone in the whiteout, but certainly a slab avalanche.