Quick report
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No red flags today where I traveled, but possibly a shallow wind drift that might still be a little reactive to a rider if you are up along the higher ridge lines. Conditions felt mostly stable and in a holding pattern till the weather changes.</p>
Just a few minor wind issues from the northwest winds that have been blowing the last couple days, these were both natural and human triggered on a northeast facing slope.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I think this problem has mostly settled out and is not a real issue right now, but the northwest winds that blew for a couple days had plenty of loose snow to drift onto the leeward side off ridges. </p>
Despite the thin snow cover, the snow conditions are quite nice with mostly supportable cold light density snow on the surface. On sleds and skis the snow is generally supportable, but once I stepped off the sled I was sinking to the ground. Maybe the snow pack is losing a little of its integrity or strength with this long stretch of dry weather.