Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Yesterdays reactive Loose Dry settled out significantly at the start of the day. The 4 inches of new light density snow that began the day, and fell in the last 24 hours, was not stuffing in the early morning hours. There was very little Natural Loose Dry observed initially today. Tour ended by 1330 right when the Rate of snowfall was beginning to hit the Red Flag category. It was likely that during that period, the Loose Dry Avalanche Problem became reactive on steep terrain. By 1600 hours the precipitation abated at 8000 feet with daytime accumulations hitting 6 inches. As forecast, the height of new snow varied significantly throughout the Range with totals from 2 to 7 inches during this afternoons event. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>See above regarding Loose Dry, and if this event brings in another heavy round of PI, Storm Slab may be an issue. Any avalanches in the new snow may be running fast and far on the good bed surfaces out there. The trend will continue increasing with any new snowfall, but it is Likely that these instabilities will settle out quickly once the snowfall ends. </p> <p>The forecast looks mostly cloudy, but even any short periods of open skies with sunshine will immediately bring on Loose Wet activity. </p> <p> </p> <p>The day began with a Low Danger rating, but Likely bumped up to Moderate during the afternoon hours in areas receiving Heavy Snowfall. </p>
Riding continued to improve throughout the day with the additional new snow accumulations. Initially the S and SW facing terrain had only the 2 to 3 inches of new snow resting on yesterday afternoons m/f crust. On all other aspects at the start of the day the HST had accumulated to at least 8 inches with yesterdays new snow settling out and becoming more dense. You could still feel the old tracks in some locations, but obviously the afternoons accumulations continued to help smooth things out. Very little Wind effects observed.