Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3109 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
Traveled from 7400'-10,200', all aspects, slope angles to 35°.
Same ole story, nothing new to report. Weakening snow surface with mid and lower elevation slopes having more developed surface hoar. Upper elevation slopes faceting but grains were much smaller than mid and lower elevation facets. We did experience isolated cracking and collapsing.
South aspects melted off quite a bit over this last week.
ECT tests failed on the same problematic layers but we did not get propagation across the column.
Future instability will depend on new storm totals and wind, with the north half of the compass being the aspects to watch.