Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Poor structure still abounds. Some areas are starting to look better, but it takes a lot of investigation to determine which ones. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Think most old wind slabs have settled out and are locked up with the cold. Found a few new shallow soft slabs from yesterday’s bump in winds, up to 6” deep, but not breaking very wide or running far. Cornices were super sensitive and almost got surprised a couple times when they broke back further than expected. </p> <p>Still there. Have looked at upper elevation SW for the past two days and have found poor structure with a shallow snowpack. Test results have consistently produced propagation on facets below a wind crust about 40 cm down from the surface. </p>
Cold temps have kept soft settled snow on all aspects.