Quick report
- Aspect
- South
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading
- Elevation
- 3383 m
- Slope Angle
- 39°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Lots of wind loading on north to northeast aspects. The avalanches on Noriega were quite substantial we got a great view of them: See photos. Other than that, things were relatively supportable today, not much collapsing or weird structure when out of wind affected areas.</p>
Check out how far to observers left the crown on Noriega propagated!
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The new snow is still settling and getting moved around, caution is still warranted. If we get more snow tonight, it will get worse, especially as there has been some grauple associated with this storm.</p> <p>The wind has wreaked havoc in many areas. Most are pretty discernible and avoidable, but more wind is predicted tonight.</p>
The wind has worked most of the higher elevations. We stayed on southern aspects that were pretty supportable under the new snow. Out of wind affected areas, the snow was quite good moderately dense powder. The new storm snow was moderately reactive, and there were some old sun crusts that failed when we wailed on them, but our pit was more stable than expect. It was not in a wind loaded area though...