Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Surface warming by the sun was being held off by the wind and cloud cover by mid day with surface thawing just beginning on most mid and upper elevation slopes. I suspect some wet loose activity was possible at the height of the day's warming on solar aspects near steep and rocky terrain.</p>
Snowpack
Surface conditions were variable with mostly refrozen crusts both supportable and unsupportable and areas of snow that had not refrozen in protected forested areas. Generally, surface snow was refrozen in the top 6" with moist melt forms and various crusts below. Many low elevation southerly slopes beginning to expose dirt/rocks/ bushes (picture 2). Surface snow below about 8000' had noticeable dust layer on surface. SW aspects at upper elevations had a thin ice lens on the surface with faceting crystals underneath (picture 3).