Snowpack

Observation: Twin Lakes Pass

Hardesty and SlackSalt Lake
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Red Flags
Poor Snowpack Structure
Red Flags Comment
<p>Nothing noted but continued poor structure. Very minor sluffing in the recent storm snow. </p>

General snowpack structure has the recent settled 8" storm snow of graupel and other slightly weakening pps above either the pre-frontal 2" hard wind crust or 1" sun crust. East-southeast presented as decent structure with some 4F+ facets beneath a deeper crust, see below. Mostly academic in nature.

Avalanches with the upcoming storm likely at new/old interface or within storm snow, possibly gouging to old crusts and potentially stepping down to old snow facets; particularly on repeater paths.

Snowpack

Soft and surfy with 3-5mm SH feathers noted on many slopes.  Some southerlies had a zipper crust from Tuesday's sun.