Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Small wet slides would be possible especially on steeper pitches as the afternoon sun continues the warm-up. Rock shrapnel from the bare ridges also peppers some areas of these slopes.</p>
Burch canyon's south-facing slopes with "Porky point" on the right side of the ridge line. The Great Western Trail from Beus canyon follows this ridge over to Mt. Ogden.
Who counts a few turns in sagebrush to reach untracked, buttery corn?
Hot shrapnel bores into the snow.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>With continued freeze/thaw cyles, low danger of wet avalanches. The snow pack is dense, frozen, and uncharacteriscally deep in places from previous cycles of cross-loading.</p>
From Porky point for an almost 2000 vertical foot drop into the heart of Burch creek canyon, strong sun served up a continuous pitch of perfect corn by noon.