Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Winds slabs were isolated , along ridgelines. Cracking in the hard wind slabs. Poor snow pack structure - the basal facets - very widespread.</p>
Worth getting out and making note of slopes with snow, and those without. Once these slopes are covered with new snow, the distance of just a few yards could dramatically change the stability, due to distribution of the old snow.
Basal facets - now 2 to 3mm, Becoming larger and weaker, with more striations and corners.
Park City ridge line, Scotts Pass to Scott Hill
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Probably could get a few isolated wind slabs moving on steep slopes, not large enough to bury a person, but dangerous in radical terrain, like above a cliff or where you could go for a long ride.</p>
Widely variable snow surface on sunny slopes - facets, melt freeze, wind crusts; faceting powder and wind board on the shady slopes.