Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>A minor red flag, but the northeast winds were still blowing today.</p>
The surface hoar layer was easy to identify in this snow pit.
Many steeper slopes were getting lots of traffic and no signs of instability.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I was not able to locate any fresh wind slabs, but there was snow blowing around today from northeast winds. </p> <p>I was able to dig around in some mid elevation protected north terrain and did locate buried surface hoar. It was easy to identify in a pit wall and would collapse with moderate effort, but it did not propagate a crack across a larger column.</p>
Nice dense settled powder and some faceted loose surface snow from the clear nights. Fairly busy today with many riders out enjoying some great snow conditions.