Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Elevation
- 3200 m
- Slope Angle
- 33°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Although the wind was transporting snow in exposed areas, there was not much snow to move around. All the old snow has consolidated, so only the small amount (<1") of new snow was blowing, so drifts were not big enough to really worry us. However, we did not get into the alpine where I suspect much more snow might have been drifted. I scoped the alpine and it looked like the wind had been raking things pretty hard, but we didn't get up there to evaluate We hammered on an ECT today and did not get any alarming results (ECTN 29 at 33 cm with irregular fracture with not even a hint of propagation). Despite only being 2 - 2.5', the snowpack is pretty solid and supportable.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Wind has been transporting snow. We only observed small drifts in the high subalpine forest zone, but the alpine may be a different story. We are supposed to have some more new snow and moderate winds in the next 24 hrs, so this could become a more serious problem. Folks should be aware of this potential for increasing potential for wind slab development.</p>
The snow was a mixed package today that was highly dependent on if wind or sun had reached the snow surface. There was a very small amount of new snow that provided a little extra padding in areas with sun crust or wind structure. There was still relatively soft skiable snow on the more sheltered slopes.