Quick report
- Aspect
- West
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 3048 m
- Slope Angle
- 28°
Traveled the north half of the compass. Wasn't finding a pronounced rime crust in the area traveled. CT's failed with medium effort and Q1 shears on small grain facets that the 12/14-15 storm fell on. No result on two ECT's. Both broke where CT's failed but did not propagate across the column. Potential for avalanches stepping down into the weak basal facets.
Photo below is an example of the shear quality all my CT's.
Based on more snow and wind forecasted, increasing danger in the upcoming days.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Increasing danger with more snow and wind in the forecast.</p>
Right side up snow. Barely discernable rime crust.