Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2713 m
- Slope Angle
- 27°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Checked poor snowpack structure largely for thin snowpack areas. In a quick east facing pit at 8000 feet snow was only 2.5 feet deep and consisted of large grain facets below a slab. At higher elevations, snow was twice as deep and the old facets were far stronger/rounded.</p>
Generally quite strong snow with no ECT result. After the ECT, pried on the block pretty well - it eventually came out but with a good deal of effort. The entire block was quite cohesive.
Surface hoar noted in valley bottoms.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Generally low danger, particularly in deeper snowpack areas. In thin areas, structure is still poor.</p>
Crusty snow was the rule of the day. At times the crust was soft enough so that you would sort of ski through it without much problem.