Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Some cracking, slight collapsing of the surface layer on top of the underlying powder on northerly aspects. There was what looked to be 1 day old wet point release debris in the northfacing cirque just west of Logan peak. Big cornices guard the top of the cirque.</p>
North Facing Cirque, small avalanche debris visible (focus kind of bad)
Southerly line I skied. ~35deg
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>North faces still need more consolidation in my opinion - probably not good skiing anyway.</p>
Skinnable snow is about 2 miles up the trail. I was expecting a dense spring snowpack, but northerly aspects are still very much winter like with a thin sun crust over powder. Southerly aspects a little more consolidated. I dug a shallow pit on a southerly aspect and there is still a 1ft thick powder layer underneath about half a foot of melt-freeze surface layer. Snow depths are also highly variable though, and I think my pit wasn't necessarily representative of the entire slope. South facing slopes had softened by 11am, but the southwesterly line I skied was better around 12.