Quick report
- Aspect
- Northeast
- Red Flags
- Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Rapid Warming, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2377 m
- Slope Angle
- 15°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>No Avalanches observed anywhere on the ridgeline or up in the cirque.</p>
ECTN13 and 14 on this rime layer. Also CT 13
PST 35/100 End down 50cm under 12/23 rime
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>I think that the facets under the 1/11 rime and maybe the facet sandwich that has formed on the 12/23 rime are our weakest layers. </p> <p>Lots of wind effect from the frontal passage on Wednesday night 1/29/2014 gust on Mt. Ogden around 100</p>
Below 6,700 feet there is about 3" on top of a breakable rain crust with facets underneath and in some places no snow underneath. From 6,700 feet to about 7,600 feet there is a firmer but not rain crust from the heavy snow that fell late Wednesday night. Skiing conditions are variable but supportable except in some patchy facet sinks that will catch you. ECTN13 and an ECTN14 (videos to follow.) on a NNE Aspect around 7,850. CT 13 also with a Q1 shear. The failure was about 17cm down from surface under the rime from 1/10 or 1/11 2014 There are 1-2mm facets under the old rime crust. These are sudden planner failures. Under the 1/11 rime there is 25 cms of fist snow with the older 12/23 (Solstice) rime underneath at about 50 cm down. Then 4f.