Quick report
Great powder day with sunny conditions in the morning. Deep snow is still a thing with penetration over a foot deep in skin tracks. Snowpack seemed very stable with small dry loose and very little in the way of wet avalanches. Avalanches crowns from Wednesday and Thursday are quiet filled in now. Surface hoar was seen on all aspects, seem to be surviving somewhat.
Weather
- Air Temp
- Mid and upper teens morning warmer but below freezing in the afternoon
- Cloud Cover
- scattered
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Recent Snowfall
- 30 cm Monday morning
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Sunny to start the cumulus built up early afternoon or midday. Good visibility.
Snowpack
Deep Powder. EFC probe strike 9 to 12 ft deep!. Nothing concerning found in upper 4 ft of snowpack. Compression test yield nothing concerning besides failure in top 10 to 15 cm down in the dry low density snow layer. Shovel tilt test yield no result as the low density snow just crumbled to powder, so in general the to foot of snow seems to lack cohesive slab. This may or may not be similar in other places but overall seemed unlikely to trigger. Between 4000 and 4500 ft a thin crust was observed on some aspects.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2 R2
- Type
- HS
- Aspect
- N
- Elevation
- 4900 ft
Old avalanches from Wednesday and Thursday have been mostly covered up by days of continues snowfall. Recent small loose snow, dry and wet avalanches.