Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Lots of blowing snow, wind out of southeast was consolidating the top 4-6 inches of snow, hand shears failed on the mfcr, but I was unable to activate that layer with my weight while skiing, triggered two small wind slabs Isolated cracking on convexities
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- intense
SE wind, Blowing snow, some graupel but mostly snow crystals
Snowpack
Dug several pole pits searching for feb 18th layer, it was up to 3 inches thick sitting on facets at lower elevations, about 80-100 cm down depending on location, the crust became thinner as I went up in elevation, all pits were east facing
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 8000 ft
All triggered on east and north east facing convexities