Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- moderate amounts
Overcast cloudy skies throughout the day. N/NE winds were light to moderate with some blowing snow occurring on the higher ridges and peaks. Moderate amounts of snow available for future wind transport as winds change direction later today and tomorrow.
Snowpack
We went out to Mt. Lola to investigate an avalanche that was reported and occurred on Sunday Jan 7, 2024. The reporting party remotely triggered this avalanche while snowmobiling in the area. The crown was 3 to 5 feet deep, with the avalanche approximately 600' wide. Shooting cracks continued towards the more northern aspect in the bowl, but the slope angle there was lower and this area of the slope did not avalanche. A dense wind blown snowpack exists in this bowl just off the summit ridge of Mt. Lola. We dug a snowpit on the flank of the avalanche where these shooting cracks could still be seen. These shooting cracks went down into the snowpack to the Jan 2 buried surface hoar layer. The layer of buried surface hoar was large, up to 10mm in size, with a distinct line in the snowpack. An ECT showed that this layer still has the potential to propagate an avalanche.