Quick report
I got many rollers on northwest and northeast-facing test slopes near treeline, and I am comfortable saying I could've triggered small avalanches on the same terrain if I'd hung around for another hour or two. Deep wet snow was more widespread than yesterday and I broke through surface crusts or just sank on my skis into wet snow up to my knees too many times.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 50s and 60s
- Cloud Cover
- scattered
- Wind Loading
- none
- Rain Elevation
- NA
- Recent Snowfall
- 0
- Snow Avail For Transport
- none
It's getting hot out there. Skies became partly cloudy throughout the day. Winds were light from the northeast.
Snowpack
I dug a hole on a north-facing, near-treeline slope where ESAC periodically monitors changes to the snowpack. I found a variety of crusts in the upper pack, but water was clearly getting through them and wetting facets buried on 2/10. I found this same structure on northeast, north, and northwest aspects from my profile site at 10,000 ft, up to my high point of 11,200 ft. The snowpack above my test site was a little drier than the overall moist-wet nature of the snow in my sample.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- WL
- Count
- 2
- Aspect
- SE
- Trigger
- N
- Elevation
- 11200 ft
D1 wet loose avalanche ran today on a southeast aspect at 11,200 ft on Pointless Peak.