Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2865 m
- Slope Angle
- 31°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Minor cracking noted within new wind drifted snow, small soft slabs off the high lee ridges 4-5 inches in depth. Poor structure noted in many areas traveled. Plenty of faceted grains within the snowpack but not much of a slab was found in our travels today. See pit profile below. Add an inch or two water to this fragile snowpack and we may see some decent size avalanches.</p>
Fragile snowpack. Main layer of concern is 80-76 cm. Could see slab failing on this layer and then stepping down to weak layers lower down in the snowpack. Time to stay out of and underneath steep wind drifted terrain especially northern aspects with the upcoming weather.
Starting out with moderate danger in the morning and potentially moving to considerable through the day as the storm moves into the area.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>See Red Flags comment and Snow pit below.</p> <p>There is plenty of snow available for transport and weak surface snow for wind drifted snow to fail on. Add more snow and wind with this next storm system and we could see these wind slabs grow substantially. </p>