Snowpack

Observation: Uintas

Gordon/Staples/ScrogginUintas
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Quick report

Aspect
Northeast
Red Flags
Wind Loading
Elevation
3078 m
Slope Angle
30°
Red Flags Comment
<p>Recent wind drifts appear welded in place and lifeless Many slopes above treeline are either scoured to bare rock or heavily drifted.</p>

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>Terrain like pictured above, is complex. ... even just a couple hundred feet of difference separating the series of chutes can offer a myriad of strong or weak snow.</p>

Snow surface in the alpine is consistently inconsistent and all over the place