Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches
Traveled up Red Pine to Lake Shot and then up to Lake Peak and into White Pine. Skies were partly cloudy trending to mostly cloudy from 6am to 1pm. Temps remained below freezing and winds were generally light out of the South-Southwest. Brief period of flurries around 1130. Height of new snow from 3/19-3/20 storm was 30-40cm. Right side up but with several different crystal types that showed various levels of bonding, including a layer of graupel atoop the old snow surface. Ski quality in northerly facing terrain above 9500' feet remains good to very good. All other aspects and elevations below 9500' sported some sort of temperature crust. Parking lots were crowded and many groups noted in the field today.
Photo 1: Loose Dry sluffs in the trees.
Photo 2: Loose Dry sluffs around cliffs
Photo 3: Storm snow structure
Photo 4: Upper Lake Shot/No Name Baldy
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Numerous signs of natural loose dry and loose wet avalanches on all aspects in upper Red Pine and White pine. Most were inconsequential, but several would have been large enough to take a skier for a ride. Watched one skier trigger a loose dry avalanche (sluff) on Red Baldy in the White Pine Drainage (see avalanche observation). No involvement, but a good reminder that human triggered avalanches are still possible even in low danger. Otherwise, no slab avalanches or other signs of instability noted.</p>