Quick report
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>localized cracking to the skier</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>the ridgeline we were on was fairly shelter from NWerlies so we didnt see much wind loading </p> <p>could see these failing in the near-term on the graupel/density change midway in the storm snow.</p>
Around 6" of new snow on the empire pass side where we started. Climbing the ridge to 10420 we found 12''-15'' of new snow. The old snow surface was gray, damp, melt forms and was generally bonded well to the new snow. There was thin, F+ hard crust in the bottom couple inches of storm snow likely from yesterday's period of sun/greenhousing. Failures in handpits were mostly on graupel/density change within today's storm.