Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2652 m
- Slope Angle
- 20°
Rime forming on the trees up in the cloud that hung on the ridge, with sustained southwesterly winds. Rime also forming a crunchy crust on the snow surface in exposed areas.
The new thin slab layer consisting of a few inches of heavy rimed snow from overnight failed easily in shallow areas, with well developed facets tbeing he culprits.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Heavy snow was certainly drifted into many upper elevation stating zones, with 1 to 1.5 foot deep drifts observed in places. Not trusting the hard slabby new snow despite the fact that it was only a few inches deep, I did not feel compelled to test the stability of these drifted slopes. Small test areas a did test were somewhat active, with cracking and some small failures where thin slabs or thicker wind crusts capped shallow and very weak faceted snow.</p>
Very dense and supportable new snow from overnight now capping widespread very weak sugary or faceted November snow. 1F New snow supportable for skis, mine rarely sinking more than 2 inches into surface..