Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Walked a while through large untouched meadows to try to trigger a collapse. No luck until I popped my ski on after digging a pit and slammed my heel down. BANG! Loud and clear on a N facing 8500' low angle slope. </p>
Quick ECT showed propagation at 25 taps.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The buried persistent weak layer is still reactive. Great indication that the snowpack is still unstable and steep slopes should be avoided. </p>
Winds have done some damage to the surface snow. About 1/2" of graupel on the surface made for fast traveling conditions on skis. Sledding conditions were good as well though not a good day to get stuck as once you jump off the snow is bottomless and loose. Supportable enough but still relatively thin with large rocks lurking underneath surface.