Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Extensive wind damage though no activity with ski cutting in high terrain. </p>
Full and white conditions in the high country. East face of the Twins scraped clean from the 19th/20th SE winds.
Minor cracking around skis.
Mid-elevation drifting back to the west - see danger rose which conveys west facing erosion up high and deposition at the mid-elevations. Terrain channeling often leads to uncertainty with locations; best to recognize wind deposited snow through look, feel, and other visual clues.
Inspection of the Valentine's Day crust at 7000' showed a triple crust with facets between the lenses (down 25cm or so).
No signs of recent natural or human triggered wind slabs, sluffs (wet or dry) or recent glides in the usual places.
Snowpack
Trace to an inch overnight.
Wind damage extensive in the alpine with the best conditions in the sheltered mid-elevations prior to dropping into the mank at the low elevations.
Chalky, damp, and wind jacked snow will be slow to show any signs of weakening.