Quick report
- Aspect
- Southwest
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Cracking
- Slope Angle
- 36°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>cracking noticed on up-track where had been blown coming over summit. down the face there had been a pretty good sized run --at the cliff band and was about a 1.5' crown face noticed. But new snow on top of this run-out zone.</p>
top was blown down about 200 vertical- after through trees good turning conditions. Cliff band had run with about a 1.5' crown face and maybe 80' wide about 200-300' run-out. good turning conditions and did hit some rocks on the cliff band. slope degrees varies about 32 to 39 depending on location on the face. Party of one, so did not see possible effects for multiple skiers coming down-- expect sloughing and maybe trigger points could have become worse.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>storm slab and seemed some places deeper persistent slab, as well. There were places where cracking was noticed and separation about 4-5 inches which had not slid, so definitely looked like it could go with the right sort of trigger load</p> <p>the new snow layer was sloughing in steep areas when taking a line down - it would slough and run past below</p>
Snow on the summit was wind-blown crust after first 200 ft. (vertical) turned to medium pow