Quick report
We skinned up (and back down) the fire road to Huntington Ravine to get a baseline visual on how the avalanche paths are developing. We observed small pockets of disconnected snow in each gully, which will limit the size of and connectivity of avalanches- likely to a D1, potentially a D1.5 in isolated areas until the paths cycle and become more connected.
It is worth noting that Diagonal was not observed, but from previous observations, it does appear to be fully connected.
We only noticed snow being blown by the wind just before 12:00 PM so we did not observe any new wind slabs in the terrain. It will be interesting to see if the southwest winds will productively load and further develop paths in Huntington Ravine throughout this storm cycle.
Travel was manageable on the fire road despite navigating several open creek crossings.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 18
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 2
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Light snow began when we left Pinkham Notch at about 9:30 AM. Snowfall rates significantly increased around 10:30 AM as visibility decreased from the lowering cloud ceiling. Just before 12:00PM winds began to noticeably increase and this was the first time we observed blowing snow. Approximately 2cm of low-density snow had fallen.