Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Fresh wind slabs mainly on the northeast facing slopes were the main concern I observed today. These were manageable in size, breaking at my skis and sled and only several inches deep. Many of the drifts were pretty welded in place right now, but I did not see a lot of terrain today. </p>
Much of the exposed terrain is quite wind hammered and I was finding this to be the case more on east facing slopes. A poor picture of the wind textured snow along the high ridgeline in Gold Hill.
I was finding a few shallow wind slabs that broke at my skis and sled and only several inches deep.
Nice late afternoon sky with maybe some approaching weather and new snow?
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Some of the shallow snowpack areas like Gold Hill and Mill Creek would be places where these wind slabs might be more likely to be triggered where there is still more developed sugary snow near the ground. </p> <p>Thinner snowpack areas are still more prone to see a human triggered avalanche. </p>
Much of the exposed terrain has been worked over by the steady winds, but there is still places with settled soft snow in the protected areas free of old tracks.