Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
- Collapsing
- specific
2-3 times while traveling on hard wind slabs, we felt/ heard settlement that relesed large whoomphs. Cracking under skis was observed, but they did not propagate far, ~1'
Weather
- Air Temp
- 24
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- previous
Mostly clear skies, light SW wind, mild temps, warm sun. Clouds from the SW came in at the end of the day with slightly increased, but still light SW winds.
Snowpack
Widespread surface hoar and wind effected snow. Wind slabs were resting on persistant grain types and still showed reactivity. The snowpack in this area was a shallow 60cm with depth hoar on the bottom, surface hoar on top, and several strong over weak interfaces inbetween. ECTP15 down 18cm and ECTP21 down 42cm.
Avalanche
- Size
- D3 R3
- Aspect
- S
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 5300 ft
Several smaller D1 releses in cross loaded gullies were also observed.