Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Easterly winds loading on a variety of aspects, a great example of how terrain channels wind. A variety of carcky, breakable slabs and supportable hard slabs. Structure along this portion of the Park City ridge line is the same sad story - a basement layer of weak facets; and a more minor mid pack near surface facet layer. </p>
Wind... Many of the scoured slopes are starting zones, and now have a very shallow snow pack, increasing the chance of faceting during the upcoming dry spell.
Snowpack
A wide variety of snow surfaces - hard to breakable wind slab, areas where the snow was scoured down to the depth hoar and dirt layer, with soft snow on sheltered, shady slopes. Some very sheltered northerly slopes are becoming unconsolidated - the start of a facet wallow.