Quick report
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Kept the slope angles down today, but with the added snowfall and especially wind I would expect there was some activity out there. I'm curious if this shot with the wind will be enough to bring back the persistent weak layers. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Wind slabs were developing at all elevations today (including in the foothills on a late afternoon tour), and were a bit sensitive on steep rollovers. </p>
Even with new snow, and snow from last Wednesday, it was still easy to find a melt freeze crust underneath that was approximately 6 cm thick and very stout. Up high in the canyon, N-NW facing slopes it was not present