Quick report
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Collapsing, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Collapsing and cracking within the upper layers, with easy collapsing failure in sopping wet snow below a translucent M/F crust. </p>
Went up into Wood Camp and was certainly impressed by remnants of a large natural avalanche from March. (Thanks to Nate for the heads-up)
The large natural avalanche from mid-February took out hundreds of 30-year-old trees and left a large pile of debris; many acres in the flats are still buried.
GPS Photo from near toe. Map-point submitted showing extent of runout evidence.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Wet and heat-related activity becoming more likely as nighttime temperature remain well above freezing at upper elevations and rise into the mid-fifties during the day. Natural loose wet avalanches likely, and maybe more destructive wet slabs becoming possible. </p>
A foot or less of saturated April snow above dusty March melt-freeze snow up to around 7500', with more in some higher elevation and favored areas.