Quick report
What a great day to observe some instabilities in our snowpack. Travel conditions below 4000' are icy - careful skiing or mid winter ski crampons will be the ticket for this next period to navigate the approaches.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- light
Beautiful day in the mountains with mostly broken skies until 1pm then some clearing. Light snow transport observed on snow surface at 4600'.
Snowpack
AIARE I Test Pit Demo: E aspect 4600' - minor wind effect on snow surface in the area. HS: 310cm Hst: 19cm F+ snow over 1/10 Mfcr combo. CTE x 1 SC, CTMx2 SC on weak snow just below first crust layer. ECT13N x1 Hasty Pits on S aspect produced resistant planer results above the 1/10 crust. No cracking on test slopes or skin track tests. Hst 3cm at 3100' (valley bottom) to 19cm at 4600' with a drastic change from ~4000' up.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5
- Type
- HS
- Aspect
- SE
- Elevation
- 5040 ft