Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2682 m
- Slope Angle
- 15°
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The danger was not in your face and obvious where we traveled today between 7300' and 8800'. We did not experience any cracking and collapsing or observe any new avalanche activity. Mill D North area received about 10-inches of new snow with 1.9 inches of snow-water equivalent since Tuesday evening. The snowpack appeared to support the new load without a noticeable increase in the overall sensitivity on mid-elevation slopes. Stability tests showed mixed results with some ECT' tests propagating and others not. Regardless, the snowpack structure is still alarming. Of note, we did observe a thin layer of small near-surface facets mid snowpack that likely formed during the break in storms prior to Christmas. This layer did propagate in our extended column tests on mid-elevation slopes facing west and south but did not propagate on a northeast-facing slope.</p>
Obvious density change between the new snow and the old snow surface. The new snow was dense and thick enough that you were riding on top and not having your tips diving underneath. The dense snow skied fast on slopes less than 30-degrees.