Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Pretty stable looking out there. Even places that normally harbor bottomless facets have good supportable powder skiing. The HS in mid to upper elevation slopes seems to be about 150~240cm. Quite a deep pack with some minor buried weak layers, which are healing. The only major concern would be the weka surface snow. Widespread NSF and surface hoar. The surface hoar isn't nearly as developed or advanced as what I have seen in the wasatch. The feathers are very small. The NSF is the dominate weak surface snow. </p>
Picture below shows the just one example of the massive cornices that have grown off the ridge lines, and the non-result from an air blast.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Some of the cornices are quite large, and with the warming and strong sun today this was my main concern. With the approaching weather, overcast skies and cooler temps tomorrow these should be locking back up.</p> <p>I think the very small possibility of the lingering dormant DS is still out there, but would take the right combination of factors lining up to produce an avalanche.</p>
Quite a variety of snow conditions out there. Great skiing on the north aspects with no wind effect and soft settled faceted powder skiing. South half of the compass is sun baked by this point, SW and SE are unsupportable crust. Due south is supportable and softened today around 14:00. East aspects have anywhere from a skiable wind crust to a punchy not-so-skiable wind slab. West also seems to be cooked out and crusty. North and NE are skiing great!!