Quick report
- Red Flags
- Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
Walked up from the BCC side to upper Cardiff, Cardiac area. The wind was moving snow up high in the am and then moved down lower in the drainage as the day went on. I was still experiencing cracking and collapsing in untouched terrain mostly on NE and N. The wind was moving quite a bit of snow in the upper basin, loading the N and crossloading the E-NE. I think with the wind loading and maybe some new snow in the forecast the hazard will increase. The snow pack is crap right now, not much of a slab but loose facets and decomposing crust, doesn't make for a solid building block. The only question is how much weight will it hold and will it avalanche naturally or need a trigger to get it moving.
photos: wind, and cracking
Snowpack
There was about 2 inches of new snow, medium density with graupel mixed in. The due S got damp in the afternoon.