Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Red flag today was undoubtedly wind. Soft slab formation was underway, but noted no cracking or collapsing underfoot. The biggest results we found were soft chunk sluffing on slopes over 40 degrees with firm/icy beneath. For a moment I glimpsed the skyline ridge behind the briefly thinning shroud of cloud and see cornice chunks and what appeared to be size 1 wind slab debris, but this apparition disappeared as quickly as it had materialized. </p>
A moment of better visibility in the mid elevations today.
Snowpack
Snow surface was a couple-few inches of mixed graupel and dense, with wind effects of all varieties. Beneath this was cakey and soft-ish snow above about 8000ft in relatively protected zones. Low elevations featured a damp surface, or damp under the new snow, generally supportive enough to still make for reasonable travel. In between lay the mid elevation transition zone, an unholy matrimony of wind affected, breakable crust, scoured, supportive and firm crust, and randomly soft-ish. However, for those fond of the occult or who dabble in the dark arts, there were turns to be had.