Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking
- Elevation
- 2530 m
- Slope Angle
- 27°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Conditions did not appear to be all that dangerous. Certainly potential for soft slab activity, and observed many d 1 sluffs on very steep slopes. Cracking in the snow surface perhaps 2" deep in wind affected areas.</p>
I noted extensive sluffing off steep slopes and a 2" deep, 200' wide tiny natural soft wind slab release at 7000' that occurred during a period of very heavy snowfall.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Not much of an issue for me, since I stayed in mostly low angled terrain. Wind slabs will be an issue if wind speeds increase, but wind slabs were very soft and not a huge threat today.</p> <p>I noticed lots of natural sluffing off very steep slopes and avoided travel under such slopes. I was not really able to trigger anything on slopes where I skied, but surface snow was cracking and moving with me for shot distances.</p>
Top notch powder riding conditions