Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The snowpack was quite dense and as Craig mentioned; "shrink wrapped", but the gusty winds still found snow to blow around. A big warm up for the snow and lots of roller balls and damp snow this afternoon.</p>
Without a good overnight freeze, the roof of our cat shed continued to produce some large slabs of snow sliding off the roof.
1. Some of the cornice blocks are quite large and you would not want to be in the path as these are tumbling down the slope. 2. On this steep northeast facing slope a large chunk of cornice broke naturally and triggered a small slide, but the debris piled up quickly where the slope transitioned onto more gentle terrain. Not a good to place to hang out below these big cornices. 3. Here on Double Hill another fresh chunk of snow broke naturally off the ridge line.
The winds have been blowing steady for a couple of days and today they continued to find enough snow to drift onto leeward slopes and at times the winds were swirling upslope.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I did not observe any fresh wind slabs, but the strong winds at times was drifting snow onto the leeward slopes. </p> <p>There were numerous slopes where large chunks of cornice had broken off and tumbled quite far down the slope and some of these triggered some shallow slides.</p>
A wide variety of conditions with very dense snow on the north facing slopes, wind hammered snow along the exposed ridge lines and quite damp snow where the sun was.