Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2865 m
- Slope Angle
- 26°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Biggest red flag was the wind loading in the upper elevation terrain. </p>
Impressive flagging heights on the trees at the bottom of this large slide path.
Wind slabs will be the biggest concern in the next couple of days but, based on my snow pit tests today, I wouldn't rule out slides releasing within the top 24" of the pack.
Overall, excellent riding conditions with moderate hazard.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Increased danger with continued wind. As I'm writing this, I went to check WX stations for wind speed and direction and many are offline and reporting no data. If the wind die down the danger will be trending toward decreasing - pretty straight forward. </p> <p>By Uinta standards the bottom 3' or so of the pack is pretty solid and homogeneous. The weaknesses I found were in the upper 2' or so of the pack. These weaknesses were reactive in pit tests and failed with easy to moderate effort in both CT and ECT's. Failures on ECT's propagated across the column. </p>
Lots of soft snow still out there but the wind was having it's way with the new snow and forming sensitive, shallow wind drifts up high.