Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2682 m
- Slope Angle
- 24°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Wind transport was observed at the ridgeline though no evidence of significant wind slab formation was found. Loading on top of the faceted layer ≈30cm down is of greatest concern. Another party in the same area reported triggering a small slide on steeper terrain but I was unable to visually verify when I went to what I thought was the location they described. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Wind transport an loading is taking place on ridgelines at upper elevations. </p> <p>There is a ≈20cm thick layer of faceted snow in the middle of the snowpack (30cm down) sandwiched between a crust above and below. CT and ECT tests did not produce any sudden collapse or propagation. </p>
Light and fluffy low-density snow on the surface with a supportable crust ≈10cm below.