Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No cracking of collapsing noted all day. Lots of snow. IF we get what is in the forecast all will change. Noticed a lot of sluffing today. The entire bowl between Neff's Knobs was filled with sluffs but no crowns noted.</p>
Dug two pits one at 8k and one at 8900k. Lots of spatial variability. Thin weak snow found near W. Porter pass but no real load on it for now.
Attached pics of two pits and some sluffage from ski descent and natural activity.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Density inversion with the slightly more dense snow sluffing on the lighter snow from yesterday. Wide spread.</p> <p>There are buried facets found everywhere. Most are covered with a fairly stout cap. Unlike Trent's finding in Mineral I could not get a clean shear below this thin ice layer and did not have any collapsing at all today.</p> <p>Graupel absent for the most part in this area today.</p>
Total snow depth up to 20" from Monday and last night. Density inversion noted with the heavy 5% snow sitting on the fluffy 3% from yesterday.