Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3139 m
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Not a major winter storm, but gusty south winds, a few inches of new snow and a weak snow pack have ramped up the avalanche danger.</p>
Just a few inches yesterday and a couple today up around the High Line Trail head.
Not a lot of new snow with yesterday's storm and maybe a couple inches this morning are sitting a very weak snow pack and the conditions were a little sensitive today.
There were a few sensitive soft slabs as the new snow was adding stress to the underlying snow pack. I took advantage of this safe road bank to see how the new snow was reacting and got this very small soft slab which quickly broke apart and it gouged into the weak snow underneath.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The weak snow pack got a small stress test with the recent snow and wind and I observed some small soft slab conditions that were failing on the old/new snow interface.</p>
A few inches of new snow to help the meager snow pack, maybe not enough to have the wheels fall off the bus.