Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3170 m
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Early season red flags with weak sugary snow making up the bottom of the snow pack and winds are building a hard slab on top of the existing surface in the wind zone.</p>
Took a quick trip to the " ice box" for a look around. The shady side of Bald Mt. this time of year is a little on the cool side and the northwest wind made for some chilly conditions. Still need a few good storms here to cover the large rocks.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Cold clear weather should continue to keep the snow pack weak and shallow.</p> <p>Winds from the south yesterday and northwest winds today have been finding loose snow to blow around and are creating some dense wind slabs in the exposed terrain.</p>
Nice surface snow that is starting to weaken, there were some crusted conditions on the sunny slopes and firm wind slabby snow in the exposed terrain. Conditions are still thin and it looks better than it is.