Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Saw the results of the widespread loose wet cycle from yesterday on the skin up White Pine on E-S-W aspects; largely point releases and a few bigger D1/D2.</p> <p>With the warm up today, we noted 3 different natural wet slides on steep, high E facing terrain that caught our attention. D1-2 as point releases fanned out and entrained loose snow. The surface snow on the northerly aspects that we skied was fairly cohesive, on a slick bed surface. This resulted in larger and longer running dry loose avalanches than I anticipated beneath my skis in steep terrain. We didn't stick around long enough to see much natural activity on W aspects, but I'd bet money they happened.</p>
Snowpack
High northerlies still held soft snow, but anything outside of NW to NE was sun affected in some way. At mid/lower elevations, snow surface was a mixed bag by midafternoon of lingering crust, damp, wet, chunky, and the occasional bit of soft thrown in. Wind affected snow was present at the ridgelines, with cornices a couple feet tall on Red Baldy. We did not note any windslab concerns on Red Baldy.