Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Lots of red flags but the wind loading was the most impressive.</p>
Travel was up USA Bowl, Scott’s Bluff, No Name, with a sum what diminished view of the Monitors. Was thinking that everything had to have avalanched but was surprised when we got to No Name and saw no activity, and could not provoke any, but the wind was not getting to it’s protected slopes. We did trigger two avalanches on Scott’s which was much more wind affected and loaded, which I put on the avalanche page. The snow was inverted in all the terrain covered but almost more so in wind sheltered terrain. I’m not gonna trust any steep slopes for a bit, too much wind, too much snow, and suspect structure in most areas.
Photos wind loading and avalanches and trench warfare
Snowpack
Seemed like there was 18 to 20 inches of new snow, mainly light density in protected terrain with a coating of graupel on top which made it inverted, wind slab and wind blasted snow in more exposed terrain.