Quick report
- Aspect
- North
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Elevation
- 2530 m
- Slope Angle
- 30°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Heard lots of collapsing in mid elevations on W facing slopes where the snowpack was lower. Consistent SW to W winds continued to load N and E aspects throughout the day. We dug a pit at 8288' on a N facing slope and performed a compression test with a result of CTMSC@40cm, and got an ECTX. The compression test was done in a spot in the pit where a rock had pushed the weak layer higher up in the snowpack. </p>
Snowpack
- Instability Comment
- <p>Even though those weak layers are getting buried deeper with these last couple storms, as the tests above demonstrated, all it takes is a rock or some other spatial variability in the slope to push those weak layers higher up to where a rider can affect them and cause the whole slope to propagate. We're not out of the woods yet. </p>
Deep, medium density powder on the N and E aspects, with the occasional stiff wind slab. Lower elevations, below about 7500', the new snow capped off facets to the ground.