Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3170 m
- Slope Angle
- 21°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The only red flags observed today were from probing into the snow and feeling for strong over weak structure. At the bottom of Tele Gold the HS is 145cm, and at the top of the run there was 160cm of snow. The bottom 30cm of the pack felt very soft. </p>
Quick pit at the bottom of Tele Gold. The upper couple inches of graupel 3-5mm was pouring out of the pack and into our skin tracks in all the terrain we broke trail into today. I wanted to see how well it had bonded to the surface it fell on. Quick CT proved it wasn't bonded very well. CTE RP down 10cm failing on .5-1mm decomposing and fragmented grains. Just curious as this layer and interface could become buried with the upcoming Monday and Tuesday storm. Something to keep an eye on once we add a slab.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>This problem continues to be tricky. Low probability of triggering right now, but if you manage to do so the outcome would be grim. The last avalanches reported to be triggered into old weak snow are from 2/7/24. I'd love to see how this layer handles another large loading event. Shallow, rocky and steep areas should remain suspect facing W-N-SE NTL and above.</p> <p>Didn't notice any signs of wind slabs in the terrain we traveled in today. Calm winds very little to no transport in terrain above tree line. Decreasing danger in the short term. </p>
A day of fast graupel surfing was had. NW-N-NE held cold dry snow and was a treat to ski. Low angle slopes skied fast and fun. E-S-W took on solar input and will be further crusted tomorrow morning.