Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Possibly some minor wind loading with todays light south and southeast winds, but I did not observe any glaring red flags where I traveled. </p>
A nice deep snow pack in the Gold Hill area.
Pretty quiet day in the backcountry with light to calm winds not moving much snow around, no recent avalanches, several inches of new snow and a deep snow pack.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Yesterdays southeast winds loaded some west facing slopes, but things seemed to have settled out as I did not find any reactive wind drifted snow. Up along the Gold Hill ridge line the recent wind drifted snow would just crack and sluff with no real issues.</p> <p>I dug a quick pit in the Gold Hill area and there was 220cm of total snow which is just amazing. I did not dig down to the ground and look for the November weak layer as it is well buried right now in this location.</p>
Just a couple of inches at the trailhead, but in Gold Hill there was anywhere from 6-10" of nice medium density snow that continues to add to an already amazing deep snow pack. The riding and turning is very good and moving around the area is quite easy.