Quick report
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The upper elevations have the hard wind slabs (mostly unsupportable) sitting on facets, cracking under the weight of a person, but not propegating. Upper Mill B starting zones did not have the deeper snowpack found at some of the higher elevations in the Cottonwoods - shallow and super faceted beneath the wind slabs. </p> <p> West southwest facing - traversing the wet facets was sort of funky - the same old story of lots of weak snow with no slab, but it had that feeling that if you found just the right conditions you could almost get a wet slab. These slopes will be strong once they cool.</p> <p> And a repeat of the early January high pressure snow conditions at mid and lower elevation, shady slopes - a widespread, deep layer of well developed facets, with the added feature of surface hoar on top in the drainage bottoms.</p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Most all the issues are in the future. </p>
Plenty of breakable wind and sun crusts, but some shady slopes off the ridge lines still have a supportable mid pack, with soft facets on top.