Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
- Collapsing
- isolated
Quick lap with the dog. A few inches of new snow here as of noon. The new snow hadn't made much of a change in the avy conditions. Poor skiing conditions as your skis sank below recent crusts into faceted snow. Terrain features with much recent wind loading were isolated in this area.
I got one shooting crack on a concave terrain feature that held a slightly deeper snowpack. The crack failed in the January dryspell layer, which consisted of large facets. There wasn't much slab here, and the crusts in the upper snowpack probably helped the crack propagate.
I remotely triggered a small avalanche on a northeast-facing, wind-loaded terrain feature with just the right fetch for the few inches of new snow to form a ~10 to 12" slab. The slab failed on small facets sitting on top of a thin crust at the new/old snow interface. Right at the bottom of this roller, the small avalanche tried to step down into deeper weak layers.
Weather
- Recent Snowfall
- 8
Snowpack
Average HS ~45cm. The new snow was sitting on a thin 1 to 2cm crust on ENE- to NE-facing slopes in this area.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 9450 ft
I remotely triggered a small avalanche on a northeast-facing, wind-loaded terrain feature with just the right fetch for the few inches of new snow to form a ~10 to12" slab. The slab failed on small facets sitting on top of a thin crust at the new/old snow interface. Right at the bottom of this roller, the small avalanche tried to step down into deeper weak layers.