Quick report
- Aspect
- Southeast
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 1768 m
- Slope Angle
- 20°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Found buried surface hoar about 1' deep at low elevations in Tab Hollow. The snow was damp on all slope aspects.</p>
The low elevation snow was soft and saturated on all slope aspects, and there were many fresh roller-balls and pinwheels..
The buried surface hoar layer was obvious in my pit wall. It failed cleanly and with propagation.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Not much liking the warm conditions and saturated snow at low elevations. As overnight temperatures hover above freezing in mountain canyons, wet slabs are increasingly possible at low elevations on slopes with buried persistent weak layers. </p> <p>The snow is soft and slushy, and there were lots of roller balls and pinwheels today. </p>