Quick report
- Aspect
- West
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2469 m
- Slope Angle
- 35°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Poor snow structure, with a couple very weak layers of sugary faceted snow in the upper foot of the snowpack.</p>
The widespread poor snow structure setup consists of very weak sugary snow called near surface facets above a crumbly deteriorating crust. Chains of well developed faceted snow below it.
We're finding very weak snow in many areas, but lacking a cohesive slab, the snow in most places is currently stable.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>East winds on Tuesday night built drifts on slopes with weak layers near the surface consisting of sugary faceted snow. This weekend people could still trigger these, as small wind slab avalanches, in steep drifted terrain at upper and mid elevations.</p>
Nice dust-on-crust conditions, but you could feel underlying tracks and variable snow surface conditions.