Quick report
- Aspect
- West
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3170 m
- Slope Angle
- 32°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The poorest structure that I have run into this season was today. Upper elevations, large grain facets with slabs on top. </p>
Surface texture from wind as well as a crack from artificial trigger.
Shallow snowpack, crack that went down to old snow/newish snow interface.
Old skier triggered slide in addition to a natural. Note the glaze from the firnspiegel.
Large radiating crack from artificial trigger. Even after a significant load was placed on this slope and we thought all energy had been removed; we got stability tests that said otherwise. IF THERE IS POOR STRUCTURE, BE WARY AND MIND YOUR SLOPE ANGLES.
E facing
39° slope
10,450
HS120cm
CTM SP ECTPV 55cm down
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>If there is a poor structure, and that poor structure is present pretty much everywhere at upper elevations, mind your slope angles. It is getting harder and harder to trigger them but the consequences have not diminished. </p> <p>A pretty distant 2nd to the PWL, but still there. Evidence of wind transport was seen thru the day. </p>
Ran into a variety of snow surface conditions, most of them were pretty junky and inhibited riding conditions.