Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Red Flags
- Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2865 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>The snow in this area is much thinner than in the upper cottonwoods and has multiple crusts that provide opportunities for failure. Forecaster Comments: Andy/Chad - Thanks for getting into this terrain - good to get reports from outlying areas. Hardesty</p>
Photo shows slab result from ECT
Some surface hoar
Interesting snow crystal
Moose triggered loose snow slide.
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>In our snowpit tests, our results produced a nice slab failing on facets 75cms deep. In the attached photo, the slab was composed of two parts - one about 35cms thick and another denser 10cm layer that may have been due to the wind event earlier this month.</p>
Recent snowfall has remained cold on most aspects. In some more shaded areas it started to feel like the snow is changing from new powder snow into something more loose. South aspects have a bit of a sun crust.