Quick report
- Aspect
- Northwest
- Elevation
- 3018 m
- Slope Angle
- 25°
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>None but some minor wet and dry sluffing on the steepest terrain. Some size .5 natural sluffing in the earliest hours off Cardiac Ridge and above Room of Doom. Some minor pushalanches at mid/lower elevations running easily on underlying crust. </p>
Minor wet and dry sluffing the main issues in this deeper snowpack area (pic below). A couple size 1 natural wind slabs noted - the Keyhole into Cardiff had run with some wind loading - and covered by the overnight snowfall (pic below).
Some small grained rounding facets found at interface above the graupel layer. The 22 March rain crust - as Greg mentioned yesterday - makes for an excellent bed surface with graupel and rounding squares above. Just needs more of a load or in isolated areas with signif. graupel pooling on the crust.
Photos:
Looker's right and left show extent of natural wet loose and skier triggered dry loose
Recent natural wind pocket in the Keyhole entry from before the overnight snowfall
Damp pushalanches on test slopes in lower Toledo Gulley
Photo profile to accompany Snowpilot
Rounding small grained facets above graupel
Snowpack
Racing against any sun-breaks to gain Cardiac Ridge. Makoff had put in most of the track. A little bit of bottom-feeding on off aspects and on steeper terrain mid-slope.