Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2347 m
The wind slabs were scattered at upper elevations, transitioning from firm to soft in a matter of a couple feet. Be on your toes.
Once we got into sheltered lower terrain the snow was much softer and more manageable.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Persisting as the name implies, growing more stubborn.</p> <p>Pencil hard slab above a melt freeze crust covering 4 finger rounding facets. </p> <p>5-10 cm wind slabs scattered on all upper elevations, finding firmer crusts on northern aspects.</p>