Quick report
- Red Flags
- Collapsing, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Just one minor collapse on a small steep rollover where the bump in winds from yesterday's small storm created isolated wind slabs, but these have for the most part settled-out. As is often the case on the east side, the snow pack is thinner and you can still find weak faceted snow near the bottom of the snow pack, but I could not find much of a slab in the area. I felt the hazard was generally quite low, but could be the isolated chance of finding a weak thin spot where a person could still trigger a slide. </p>
Pretty quiet in the Mill Creek area, where some of the bigger slopes were ridden several days ago.
I spent a few hours above treeline today enjoying the great views of the high country.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Today's east winds kept the lid on any heat activity at the upper elevations, but this weekends forecasted near record high temperatures could put the snow pack through its first big warm-up.</p> <p>A few isolated places where a deeper avalanche might be triggered in thinner snow pack areas like Mill Creek.</p>
Just a minor dusting of new snow at the trailhead and around 2-3" in the upper Mill Creek drainage made for some nice conditions.