Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Looked carefully for signs of recent avalanche activity and saw none but major wind deposits were obvious.</p>
Snow at about 10k ft near Mirror Lake on a sheltered gentle NW slope was about 150 cm deep, 1 to 4 finger hardness except for about 30 cm well preserved facets at the ground. Potential of a wind slab stepping down the ground? Seems unlikely but with terrible consequences.
Wind activity - red flag
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Pockets of wind deposited snow on E & NE slopes seem very likely</p>
Surface snow in sheltered areas was not yet showing signs of surface hoar and was generally loose and unconsolidated. Lots of evidence of wind transport on the ridgelines - plumes, sculpting, cornices, drifts forming across the road on Bald Mtn pass.