Quick report
- Red Flags
- Rapid Warming
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Rapid warming...though today was not the first day of sun since the weekend. Timing remains the key this time of year. </p>
Did not see any active wind slabs; most likely welded in.
Wet loose still possible on all aspects...with rollerballs even on norths well above 10,000'.
Cornices, wet loose remain the avalanche concerns.
Photos:
Natural damp rollerballs on northerly aspects
The storm snow has baked down to 1-3" on off aspects above a supportable crust. Would picture small to medium volume debris piles with sustained vertical.
Firnspiegel - "snow-mirror" developing on snow surfaces.
Supportable "corn" skiing at and just below 11,000' on south/southeast at 11am.
Snowpack
Everything damp up to perhaps 10,500'.
Good supportable pretend-corn on southerlies. The weekend storm snow has baked down to just a few inches on previous supportable melt-freeze crusts on SE>W.