Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Rapid Warming
- Elevation
- 2743 m
- Slope Angle
- 25°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>I walked through a lot of wind loaded areas today without any reaction or red flags in wind slabs. Only some limited minor, non-shooting cracks.</p> <p>Low elevation areas got warm enough to be of concern on solar aspects.</p>
22" of snow above the rain crust. ECTP 5, Q3 5" below the surface, this is a wind slab in the upper snow pack. Glove is sitting on failure surface, decomposing storm particles
Photo below:
ECTN at 8,500' same aspect. Column broke apart.
Photo below: Mixed travel conditions, easy trail breaking. Last weeks skin track visible in photo, this was a trench last week. 8,200' NW aspect on a ridge.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Although I did not see any real red flags I still adjusted my route to avoid steep wind loaded areas and did not follow my normal route.</p> <p>Moderate hazard below 9,000', I would imagine more loading occurred at higher elevations.</p> <p>Wet slabs will be a possibility with increasing temps.</p>
Mixed bag in my travels from 6,700' to 9,100. Wind exposed areas were scoured and loaded. Many of the cornices I dropped yesterday were reformed. Yesterdays skin track was blown in or away.
Still finding settled snow in wind protected areas ranging from settled powder to weakening snow over a crust.
Low elevation areas are damp and/or crusty depending on exposure.