Quick report
- Aspect
- East
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Heavy Snowfall
- Elevation
- 3048 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Definitely recent avalanches today, noting three natural releases on our tour. A small slab broke on the steep northerly terrain just east of the lower NW ridge of Patsey Marley. Another slab fractured across two chutes in the Stupid Chute/Gordon's Folly zone. Finally, we saw a solar point release around 1030am beneath the Highway to Heaven Traverse. </p> <p>There was significant new snowfall with the latest storm cycle. However, it looked like the NW wind had under-produced in the Twin Lakes zone. There was fairly little cornicing above Patsey Trees and Black Bess and along the top of the Honeycomb Cliffs. Did not note any significant wind slab on SE slopes. </p>
Dug a pit just east of Twin Lakes Pass (40.59441, -111.60902). No result from ECT. Basal facets were a bit dense and appeared to be rounding. Approx 15cm rounding facets at the ground, 15cm of 1F on top of this, 40cm of 4F, capped by 55cm of F snow.
East also aspects appeared increasingly stable. Noted numerous tracks below Cardiff Peak where there was an avalanche during the Thanksgiving storm cycle. Also noted a skin track below the Highway to Heaven traverse that featured a damp slide cross it less than an hour later. Still worth avoiding start zones even when stability is good. Unfortunately those pics are refusing to load.
Snowpack
Ski pen was 30cm or more. General theme was plenty of powder.