Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Not really much in the way of red flags, the snow pack still has some faceted weak snow near the ground, but I observed mostly stable conditions. Still an isolated chance a person could find the weak spot in one of the shallow thinner terrain areas.</p>
I spent part of the afternoon on the east side of Moffit Peak and the only thing of note were these shallow wind slabs that started up high off the ridge line and entrained weak faceted surface snow. Not a huge amount of snow with these , but enough to knock a rider off their sled in these narrow gully features.
Many of the avalanche staring zones are still thin after being cleaned-out by the big holiday avalanche cycle.
I guess you always have to take a photo from the top of the Peak-looking southeast.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I was finding the wind slabs that were mainly on the south and southeast facing slopes to be pretty relaxed. The few places I stomped on the slab would break at your skis and sled, but did not really want to move much.</p> <p>I have not heard of or seen any slides breaking into old weak snow in a little while. I'm sure given the amount of terrain out in the Uintas, there are some isolated places a person could find a weak shallow spot on a slope and trigger a slide.</p>
Mostly good supportable riding and turning conditions, with the surface snow becoming weak. A nice storm would help to cover over the hard old tracks and really help to fill in areas.