Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3231 m
- Slope Angle
- 46°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Some light windloading was observed through the day. Found some soft sensitive windslab on a north facing ridge about 12" deep, ran over hard slab old wind slab and stepped down midslope another 12" loose dry. Observed strucutre on slope and in pit was about the poorest I've seen latley. I have also observed over the past week or so cornice growth has begun to form some soft sensitive looking cornice, also found some old stubborn larger cornice.</p>
Picture below of cornice from early this week, that was almost non existent a week + ago.
Picture of soft wind slab that stepped down.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Some soft sensitive shallow wind slabs around and some old larger harder welded feeling wind slabs as well. New, reactive wind slabs were isolated and manageable. If the winds stay consistent or ramp up I could see this being a larger issue in the tomorrow.</p> <p>Poor structure observed. The Thanksgiving rain crust seems to be bridging the very week depth hoar where I looked today, but the crust was not a consistent layer. Trigger point could collapse the weak layer. The interface between the crust and the layer above did not seem to be reactive where I looked.</p>
Only about 1-3" between what fell overnight and through the early afternoon hours.