Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Just some minor wet roller balls and a few damp sluffs on sunny slopes, but these did not entrain much snow. </p>
Old news, but I was pretty impressed with the depth of this old crown under Reid's Peak. Possibly snow from high on the peak cascaded down and triggered this slide during the last storm cycle? Also, more old news, but a good photo of the fairly widespread natural avalanche cycle the area went through with the last storm.
One of those days when the skies are clear, winds are generally calm and the snowpack is mostly stable, making for a beautiful day in the high country.
The snow conditions around the trailhead are back to thin and pretty rough for the first mile or so of highway.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The persistent slab problem is more likely to be an issue in the terrain around Bald Mt. and other high elevation, shallow, thin rocky areas. Many slopes have been ridden without any avalanches triggered, but there could be the isolated area where a person could find a weak shallow spot. </p>
The high elevation north facing terrain around Bald Mt. is still holding onto nice dense settled powder, but loose a little slope angle and the sun is turning the snow into damp sticky conditions. It's a great time to be out moving around the mountains with a mostly supportable base and decent snow coverage in the mid and high elevation terrain.