Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2896 m
- Slope Angle
- 15°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Between approx. 45cm - 85cm we have a facet filled PWL (persistent weak layer) that at 9500ft. on North/Northwest aspects on Argenta is between 90cm - 130cm beneath the surface. </p>
Wet snow avalanches and our persistent weak layer were the two areas of greatest concern. The melt freeze crust was still widespread and wet avalanche activity was not present when I got off the slope at 13:30.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Between approx. 45cm - 85cm we have a facet filled PWL (persistent weak layer) that at 9500ft. on North/Northwest aspects on Argenta is between 90cm - 130cm beneath the surface. It is a fist level firmness. At 100cm snow temp was -8.0 degrees Celsius, at 72cm the snow temp was -6.3 Celsius and at 43cm it was -4.8 degrees Celsius. </p> <p>A melt freeze crust has developed from warm temperatures over the past couple days. This creates more difficult skiing/riding conditions, and also a more dangerous surface as far as avalanches are concerned, for new snow to fall on in the coming days. Wet snow avalanches were also a concern today. </p>
Melt-freeze crust surface pretty much from top to bottom on Argenta from 0930 - 1330. ( 9:30AM to 1:30 PM)