Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3048 m
- Slope Angle
- 20°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Nearly every step onto new terrain resulted in whumpfing, with connected low-angle slopes producing some of the more unsettling rolling thunder our Wasatch-based selves have heard in a while. One particular collapse on an ENE 9450' slope generated multiple visible cracks across the slope.</p>
Pits from 12/31 but observation from 3-day trip to Ridge Yurt 12/30-1/2. Noted improving snowpack stability as we moved higher in elevation on N facing slopes, including ECTPX in pit at 15deg @ 9990'. Still a few layers of concern including a mid-pack wind crust. ECTPX but was able to cleanly shear the upper P slab along this layer. Still a dragon lurking in the dungeon below with a mix of primarily angular and some (starting to) round facets. Otherwise, overall weak snowpack on SW through E slopes and plenty of red flags present to go along with it. Added additional photo of pit from S @ 9440'. Great quality skiing on lower angle slopes and plenty of solitude.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Still harbording widespread PWL... it is the Uintas after all. Encouraging was the small size of facets with some evidence of rounding on higher elevation slopes with deeper snowpack, though can find quite the rotten pile at the bottom of the pack where locally shallower snowpack exists, especially on SW through SE. Clearly still sensitive outside the highest elevations given all the cracking and collapsing.</p>
New relatively light density snow skiing well on top of a strong and supportive wind-packed layer across the area. Stark differences in depth and stability between S and SE, even greater difference between the weak and shallow southern half and strengthening northern half of the compass.