Quick report
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Rotten snowpack has been well described. I did not experience any collapsing or cracking up to 8K. </p>
Photo of the brushy exit, normally a nice snow covered north slope.
video showing how you can push your pole to the ground at 7800ft north slope through 90cm/~35in of snow. Crazy.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>The PWL is more like the "persistant weak snow pack"! Get off of your skis at 8k and you are standing on the ground in the shelters north areas. I did not experience any red flags other than looking at the large faceted snow pack. The melt freeze crust at 8k is mostly broken down and the lower elevations is persistant and growing even larger facets below. </p>
The loose faceted surface snow makes for fast, loud and reasonable turning on the sheltered brush free slopes. Beware of the velcro like oak brush. At the low elevations the steeps slopes started to sluff (yesterday they did not as I was on the same slopes then)