Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Hard to miss them today. New snow had layered hardness changes and was quite reactive to provocation. </p>
Video of cracking and mini cornice breaking out ahead of skin track on small test slope
Photo of surface texture on a broad ridge feature around Empire pass. Wind Which Way?
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>This was the most prolific problem in our chosen zones which primarily faced S-SE. </p> <p>Did not investigate with formal tests, but lots of probing and stomping about out of skis, you could easily assess the structure of strong over weak. Although HS averaged 75-100cm in our area, some faceted snow was on the ground. These facet layers were not nearly as thick as on the Little Cottonwood side of things.</p>
Hard to discern exact totals with the continuous wind, but drifts grew up to 10-12" deep quite quickly.