Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The new snow felt like it bonded pretty well to the old snow surface. The only avalanche activity we saw during our tour was a sluff trigured by an intentional cornice drop from around the weather station. Keep in mind that the winds were active during yesterdays snow fall. </p>
Butter Snow
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>It sounded like wind slabs were isolated to near ridge tops today. I would be cautious of the lee side of exposed ridges and terrain features near or above tree line. </p> <p>With yesterdays new snow storm slabs were the other problem of concern for today. We skied some steep north facing trees and were unable to get any reaction out of the snow. Barely any sluff running out of your turns. It just stuck to the snow surface downslope.</p>
Todays ski conditions were reminiscent of an east coast powder day. 4-6" of dense snow fell yesterday giving the snow a much needed refresh. We skied North facing trees into Horse Creek and found soft snow that skied kind of like spreadable butter. Once in Horse Creek we took a lap on a southwest facing slope that had the same "butter" snow with a stout melt freeze crust below.