Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2316 m
- Slope Angle
- 20°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Red flags are not that obvious until you dig or push your pole through the snow into the facets.</p>
This pit was dug in a location that a) was receiving wind transport and b) didn't have much undergrowth. I was a bit surprised by the strength of the slab here. This is essentially a mini-version (1F over facets) of the problematic snow structure along the PC ridgeline and Mill Creek area. The lack of undergrowth was helpful to observe the snow structure but most locations in Lambs are more brushy.
Stability test results were not impressive. We did get propagation after removing the top 50 cms of snow.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Faceted snow is widespread even down to 7600 feet. In many places it seems like the shrubbery exceeds the depth of the facets and may be keeping things in place. But that can vary depending on location and may be a bit of a theory.</p> <p>In open areas there was a bit of wind transport. It didn't seem all that problematic, particularly in the treed terrain we were skiing.</p>
Snow was generally pretty good. Light snow from the past couple days helped to keep things soft and cover even old zipper crusts on a east slope I noticed a few days ago. Snow in general was a bit more dense than prior days due to settlement and relatively warm temperatures at this elevation.