Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Elevation
- 2987 m
- Slope Angle
- 28°
Upper Silver Fork- ECTX although there was an easy enough shovel shear post ECTX on small grained facets below the crust @ 117cm. Stability was good, structure was poor. (Grom Scale of 7).
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Intentionally skier triggered new snow, soft slab avalanche, in a terrain feature east facing 16" deep 9300' elevation. Weak layer was small grained facets above the crust.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Cold, caky snow. 10" new snow in Silver Fork and 16" in Grizzly Gulch. Some cracking noted around steeper terrain features. Collapsing on wind drifted areas on the ridge above Davenport. Stiffer wind drifts on east facing terrain above 10,200'. The new/old interface on south facing terrain was not reactive in terrain we traveled in. We red lighted north facing terrain for the day and did not check to see how the interface between new/old was on that side of the compass.