Quick report
Hunting for wind-protected areas is the key to finding good snow as well as avoiding the wind slabs created by the last storm snow+wind event. Keep an eye out for scoured faces and where all that snow went to ID wind-loaded spots.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 10
- Cloud Cover
- clear
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- none
Clear and mostly calm
Snowpack
Mostly wind-swept snow with some carvable crusts.
Higher elevations by the saddle wind slab crowns on North Aspects. Kept an eye out wind loaded slopes, most wind slabs were very thick and our weight could not be affected. The natural avalanches occurred primarily in thinner wind slab spots
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5
- Type
- HS
- Aspect
- N
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 5000 ft
A variety of crowns mostly breaking at the ridge. Some other wind crowns on different N aspects Potentially initiated by a cornice break