Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
The cross-loaded and leeward terrain features on Gothic with productive fetches held fresh wind slabs 2 to 3 feet thick. Given the consequences in this terrain, I didn't attempt to get feedback from these large slabs. I traveled on steep, southerly terrain where the snow was sheltered or eroded by recent winds without signs of instability. I crossed one small crossdrifted terrain feature and popped a small wind slab about 8" thick.
I produced cracking across small test features in the recently drifted snow.Weather
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Recent Snowfall
- 15 to 30
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
About 6" of settled storm snow below treeline, and about 12" above treeline in the most sheltered terrain I could find. Most of that snow was redistributed by westerly winds yesterday and last night.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2.5
- Type
- HS
- Count
- 7
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 12900 ft
A couple of new large persistent slabs on wind-loaded slopes of Peeler and Owen, and dozens of D1-D1.5 wind slabs on leeward terrain in the Ruby Range. I ski triggered a small wind slab.