Quick report
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No red flags today in my travels, other than the avalanche on the north side of Yamaha Hill which is a few days old. </p>
Noticed this avalanche on Yamaha Hill yesterday afternoon from the highway as the last bit of sunshine was hitting the slope. Took a couple photos today and it looks like a natural avalanche, while the tracks are more recent. The avalanche looks a few days old as the crown is rounded and the bed surface has drifted snow on in it. This slope avalanched earlier in the season and has likely stayed shallow with facets remaining on the bed surface.
The traveling is easy right now with good supportable snow and even the "Super Wide" got around just fine today.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I did not spend much time investigting the PWL in this area, but conditions feel like their trending towards a moderae danger where the snow pack is deeper. </p> <p>The north winds today were not moving lots of snow, but there is soft snow along the ridge lines that was getting blown around, but I did not find any sensitive fresh wind drifts.</p>
The few inches of medium density snow from Thursday did not quite fill in the old traccks, but the riding and turning conditions were very nice on both sides of the compass. The traveling is quite easy and the coverage decent, but a few fence posts are still poking their heads up.