Quick report
It was a gorgeous day in the mountains. We didn't encounter windslabs on our tour, but saw major wind texture between Aneroid and Aneroid North.
Limited cracking on skintrack isolation, but no shooting cracks. Handshears failing in upper part of storm snow, down 10-15cm as a F+ slab.Weather
- Air Temp
- 25
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Recent Snowfall
- 25
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Light S winds with few gusts observed up to moderate. Steady temps. S-1 snow beginning at 1345h. Broken to scattered cloud cover.
Snowpack
We did not trigger any new snow slabs or dry loose on the few test slopes we traveled on.
NW at 8400'. HS220. No propagation on either Valentine's Day interface or the Feb 8 crust.
We didn't travel on solar aspects or observe a Valentine's Day melt freeze or rime crust.
Avalanche
1x windslab observed at a distance. D1.5 or D2 estimate since debris pile unseen over a ridge. NE 9200' and 300' wide (est) by unknown length and depth. Likely occurred during Valentine's Day loading event.