Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Elevation
- 2682 m
- Slope Angle
- 18°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Wind loading was evident </p>
Todays tour made for tricky skiing. We skied Northern aspects between elevations of 8850' and 8600'. Any higher and slopes were too wind loaded and riddled with wind slabs, any lower and the coverage was poor, and the snow pack was unsupportable. A second pit was dug on the same aspect at 8600' and had a total depth of 45cm. In this area, there were only two distinct layers. The upper 15cm was made of of fresh storm snow from the Dec 10-11 storm, and the lower 30cm was nearly all facets. The largest grains in this layer were nearly 5mm.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>PWL can be identified at 30-35cm made up of 2mm Facets. this layer of facets rests on stout melt freeze crust.</p>
This location was in a deposition zone void of wind slabs. Strong overnight winds had scoured ridge tops.