Snowpack

Observation: North Slope Environs

Craig GordonUintas
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Quick report

Red Flags
Poor Snowpack Structure
Red Flags Comment
<p>Red flag structure with NSF (for the future) and shallow wind drifts (for the now).... otherwise very straight-forward hazard.</p>

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>Shallow drifts confined to the alpine on the leeward side of ridges, gullies, chutes.... the usual suspects. Low end MODERATE hazard.</p>

 

Facet-lanches entraining snow as they descend the slope are a thing in sustained, steep terrain. The NSF is now buried and preserved and something to keep an eye on.