Quick report
There is just enough snow and support for reasonable turns in this area, but ground hazards remain a real threat. On steep, protected northerly terrain near and above 40 degrees, we trigger small loose avalanches that gouged into the shallow snowpack. Any slab avalanche issue below treeline would be quite rare and small, but couldn't be ruled out due to wind drifting at lower elevations last week.
We intentionally triggered a few small Dry Loose avalanches on steep (greater than about 38 degrees) northerly slopes.Weather
- Cloud Cover
- scattered
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Warm day with increasing clouds midday that slowly reduced during the afternoon.
Snowpack
The snowpack depth is generally around 70-80cm in sheltered northerly terrain. A small amount of cohesion exists near the surface, but the snowpack is largely well-developed facets, except for the Christmas rain crust. Wind textures can be found in many open areas below treeline. We did produce a small shooting crack on a cross-loaded gully.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1 R1
- Type
- WL
- Count
- 3
- Aspect
- SE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 11800 ft
A couple of small skier triggered sluffs, and a couple of natural Wet Loose avalanches near Mount Bellview that likely ran on Sunday.